Android driver will not accept/dismiss Android device alerts

Issues/Bugs
1

Hello,

I am having a hard time getting the Android driver to accept Android alerts. I am using Python.

Are their alternatives to the examples below to get the system/device level popups to be dismissed?

The following does nothing:

    # Try to dismiss any Android account alerts.
    try:
        alertObj = driver.switch_to.alert
        alertObj.accept()
        alertObj.dismiss()
        log("Alert Accepted #1")
    except BaseException as e:
        log("Exception! " + str(e))
    
    # Try to dismiss any Android account alerts.
    try:
        driver.switch_to.alert.accept()
        log("Alert Accepted #2")
    except BaseException as e:
        log("Exception! " + str(e))

    # Try to dismiss any Android account alerts.
    try:
        driver.switch_to.alert.dismiss()
        log("Alert Accepted #3")
    except BaseException as e:
        log("Exception! " + str(e))
2

This works for me.

What Appium Version are you using?

iosdriver.switchTo().alert().accept();
try {Thread.sleep(2000);}catch (Exception e) {}
iosdriver.switchTo().alert().accept();
try {Thread.sleep(2000);}catch (Exception e) {}
iosdriver.navigate().back();

3

Hi, I don’t know the Appium version, as I am using a cloud service.

However, from my bash script, here is the Appium Python Client version (0.23)

echo “Installing Appium Python Client 0.23”
tar -xvf Appium-Python-Client-0.23.tar.gz
cd Appium-Python-Client-0.23
python setup.py install --user
cd …

4

Here is an image of the device popup blocking me

https://s24.postimg.org/bxs9zu4hx/start_failed_1.png

5

Here is the exception received trying to dismiss alerts

Message: Not yet implemented. Please help us: http://appium.io/get-involved.html

6

You should be able to click on it in NATIVE_APP context

7

Hi Hardik_d. Can you elaborate on this answer?

I’ve tried the following methods with no success:

self.driver.switch_to.alert.accept() # Also trying instantiating the alert first, and then calling alert.accept()
self.driver.find_element_by_android_uiautomator(‘new UiSelector().packageName(“com.android.systemui”)’).click()
self.driver.find_element_by_name(‘Allow’).click()
self.driver.find_element_by_id(‘android:id/button1’).click()
self.driver.find_element_by_class_name(‘android.widget.Button’).click()

8

i use appium 1.6.3 and ruby, here are couple examples:

wait(5){@driver.find_element(:xpath, “//*[@text=‘Cancel’]”).click}
wait(5) { @driver.find_element(:accessibility_id, “OK”).click }

9

After spending COUNTLESS hours trying to figure this out. I’ve finally got it!

        acceptButton = self.driver.find_element_by_text("Allow")
        action = TouchAction(self.driver)
        action.tap(acceptButton).perform()

This was insanely hard to find. Documentation is not straightforward about how click does not work well on devices. But at least this fixed my issue!

To review:

  1. Switch to alert, then accepting alert, did not work
  2. Finding the element and then performing a click, did not work
    3) Finding the element and then performing a tap, did work!
10

Hi,

Presently we don’t have any mechanism to identify the alert in the android.

we have to treat them as the normal elements.

11

I tried your way, but it doesnt work :frowning:

12

How do you treat them as normal elements? I tried treating them as normal elements and appium wont detect?

13

found https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/caps.md that with appium 1.6.3 they have added capabilities.setCapability(“autoGrantPermissions”, “true”); this should solve the problem.