Unable to find adb when launching Appium server programmatically

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I’ve been trying to get the Appium server to run programmatically and was successful with iOS projects but am having some difficulty with Android. I am running a native app on Android and the project specs are below:

  • Appium 1.3.7
  • Eclipse IDE (Luna)
  • Java bindings

When I launch the server I immediately get the error that it cannot find adb. When I run the doctor diagnostics, it finds adb just fine. ANDORID_HOME is set to the proper sdk folder and a direct line to adb is also included in my PATH. One thing to note is that I have both Eclipse and Android Studio installed on my machine. The Android SDK is coming from the Android Studio install, but I am running my project out of Eclipse at the moment and pointing to the sdk installed from Android Studio. Curious if anyone may have a suggestion outside of migrating projects to Android Studio (that is my last resort). Code snippet to launch Appium is below (this code does successfully start an iOS project).

CommandLine command = new CommandLine("/usr/local/bin/node");
command.addArgument("/usr/local/bin/appium", false);
command.addArgument("–address", false);
command.addArgument(“127.0.0.1”);
command.addArgument("–port", false);
command.addArgument(“4723”);
DefaultExecuteResultHandler resultHandler = new DefaultExecuteResultHandler();
Executor executor = new DefaultExecutor();
executor.setExitValue(1);
executor.execute(command, resultHandler);

Error raised:
Error: Could not find adb. Please set the ANDROID_HOME environment variable with the Android SDK root directory path.

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CommandLine command = new CommandLine(“cmd”);
command.addArgument("/c");
command.addArgument(“C:\AppiumForWindows-1.2.4.1\Appium\node.exe”);
command.addArgument(“C:\AppiumForWindows1.2.4.\Appium\node_modules\appium\bin\appium.js”);
command.addArgument("–address");
command.addArgument(“127.0.0.1”);
command.addArgument("–port");
command.addArgument(“4723”);
command.addArgument("–no-reset");
command.addArgument("–log");
command.addArgument(“D:\appiumLogs.txt”);
DefaultExecuteResultHandler resultHandler = new DefaultExecuteResultHandler();
DefaultExecutor executor = new DefaultExecutor();
executor.setExitValue(1);
executor.execute(command, resultHandler);

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Sorry, forgot to add that I am working off of an OSX machine (10.10.2). The above won’t work for my purposes. What I really need to figure out is why when I run appium-doctor it finds adb, but when I start the server from Eclipse, it doesn’t.

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I Googled for you & found a couple of things that might help:

http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2Fconcepts%2Fcpathvars.htm
http://help.eclipse.org/luna/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.cdt.doc.user%2Ftasks%2Fcdt_t_run_env.htm

Do these help? I think the first one still applies to Luna.

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Added the env variable to the Run Configuration and it’s working like a charm. As soon as I read Run Configuration and environment variables it all made sense. Thanks, I really appreciate it!