How to automate any android application using uiautomator2 driver?

jitenderbhardwaj · January 31, 2018, 6:44am

I am trying to implement the uiautomator 2 into my project.
I tried to find the answer but didn’t succeed.
Can someone tell me all the changes required and the way how to set it up?

Telmo_Cardoso · January 31, 2018, 9:13am

For java

capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.AUTOMATION_NAME, AutomationName.ANDROID_UIAUTOMATOR2);

Documentation in:

github.com

appium/java-client/blob/master/docs/The-starting-of-an-Android-app.md

# Steps: 

- you have to prepare environment for Android. [Details are provided here](https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/drivers/android-uiautomator2.md)

- it needs to launch the appium server. You can launch Appium desktop application. If you use the server installed via npm then 

  _$ node **the_path_to_main.js_file** --arg1 value1 --arg2 value2_ 
It is not necessary to use arguments. [The list of arguments](https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/server-args.md)


# The starting of an app

It looks like creation of a common [RemoteWebDriver](https://selenium.googlecode.com/git/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/remote/RemoteWebDriver.html) instance. 

[Common capabilities](https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/caps.md#general-capabilities)

[Android-specific capabilities](https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/caps.md#android-only)

[Common capabilities provided by Java client](http://appium.github.io/java-client/io/appium/java_client/remote/MobileCapabilityType.html)

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