Must Android 7.0 devices be rooted to UI test on them?

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Hey guys, I just ran into a problem using an Android 7.0 Nexus 9 with Appium. When trying to launch tests on the device, I get an error from appium:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: Error executing adbExec. Original error: Command ‘/Users//Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb -P 5037 -s <device_id> shell stop’ exited with code 1{“stdout”:"",“stderr”:“stop: must be root\n”,“code”:1}

Manually running adb shell stop also throws that error.

Do we have to root Android 7.0 devices to be able to run UI tests on them?

Greetings

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Check the id of the adb server – sounds like it’s not owned by you. If you kill it as root, then access adb as yourself, your problem should resolve itself.

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I got feedback from appium git issue. There seems to a problem with adb stop on android 7.0 that the appium devs haven’t resolved yet, but they are working on it.

Problem occurs when changing the language/locale of the device to anything else than standard english.