Uiautomatorviewer is not opening

sridhar_appium 2017-03-24 11:26:49 UTC #1

Hi Everyone,

I'm unable to open UiAutomatorViewer as it is closed automatically when i double click on it. Can anyone please help to find a solution for this?

willosser 2017-03-24 15:52:52 UTC #2

Have you updated your android installation recently?

sridhar_appium 2017-03-25 06:55:18 UTC #3

No. i have not updated.

willosser 2017-03-27 16:59:19 UTC #4

It might be time to do so.

sridhar_appium 2017-04-03 07:24:53 UTC #5

Willosser,
Can you please suggest me which android version need to download.....?

When i click on Device screenshot "Unable to connect adb.Check adb installed correctly" message showing...

willosser 2017-04-07 04:51:29 UTC #6

Has it ever worked for you? If no, then I would recommend taking all updates. If it previously worked for you, try to figure out what changed since it did work, but I'd probably still take all updates.

sridhar_appium 2017-05-09 13:03:18 UTC #7

Thanks @willosser i'll take all updates and try...

And Can you please suggest me how to write xpaths for ios app??

sureshsinghbhandari 2018-01-22 04:53:25 UTC #8

also faced this issue with latest Java but by downgrading java to below version, I am able to launch -
java version "1.8.0_112"
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_112-b15)
Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.112-b15, mixed mode)

lohitsb 2018-08-09 17:31:48 UTC #9

When I tried to launch the uiautomatorviewer . i am getting below error. I am trying on mac and using JAVA java 10.0.2 . Can you please some one help on the same?

Last login: Thu Aug 9 22:41:34 on ttys002
LBELALAD-M-91G4:~ lbelalad$ uiautomatorviewer
-Djava.ext.dirs=/Users/lbelalad/Library/Android/sdk/tools/lib/x86_64:/Users/lbelalad/Library/Android/sdk/tools/lib is not supported. Use -classpath instead.
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.