June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
5h 38m
English
UIAutomator 2 is an automation framework based on Android instrumentation and allows one to build and run UI tests.
Appium uses Google's UIAutomator to execute commands on real devices and emulators. UIAutomator is Google's test framework for native app automation at the UI level. Typical usage would be to pass the following in desired capabilities:
automationName: uiautomator2
With version 1.6, Appium has provided support to UiAutomator 2. Appium uses the appium-android-bootstrap module to interact with UI Automator. It allows commands to be sent to the device, which are then executed on real devices using Android's UIAutomator testing framework.
When Appium client requests to create a new AndroidDriver session, the client ...
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