Launch Message with Appium and Selenium (C#)

[Yaniv_Eliav]

Hi There,
I'm a bit frustrated.
I'm only trying to open an app. actually open the Message app on Android.
The only thing I found a biyt helpful was the "Start Activitey" thread. BUT my driver does not contains the StartActivity class as shown: driver.StartActivity("com.example.android.apis", ".Foo").

I need something to start with.
I can open the chrome and run tests on browser on my mobile. next step for me is using the mobile's app.
Thanks
Yaniv

[jitenderbhardwaj]

Define the appActivity and appPackage in DesiredCapabilities and also the URL.
It will open the message app on your android phone.
And to get appActivity and appPackage use command prompt.

[Yaniv_Eliav]

Hi There,
How do I use the CMD in order to find appPackage and appActivity?

I have done the following under [Setup]

   DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
           capabilities.SetCapability("device", "Android");
           capabilities.SetCapability("browserName", "chrome");
           capabilities.SetCapability("deviceName", "LG-G3");
           capabilities.SetCapability("platformName", "Android");
           capabilities.SetCapability("platformVersion", "5.0.1");
           capabilities.SetCapability("appPackage", "com.android.mms");
            capabilities.SetCapability("appActivity", "com.android.mms.mylocation.MmsMyLocation");
           _webdriver = new RemoteWebDriver(new Uri("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(180));

[jitenderbhardwaj]

To get the appActivity and appPackage use this command in adb shell:-

dumpsys window windows| grep -E 'mCurrentFocus|mFocusedApp'

and press Enter.
It will give you this kind of result :

mCurrentFocus=Window{421bddc0 u0 com.android.mms/com.android.mms.ui.ConversationList}
mFocusedApp=AppWindowToken{42171290 token=Token{420efc40 ActivityRecord{4210a3f0 u0 com.android.mms/.ui.ConversationList}}}

In these lines appActivity and appPackage is already given you just have to copy and use as i did.

Here is the code snippet which works for me.
I am opening the message app on my intex aqua r2 device using this script.

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver;

public class MessageApp
{
static AndroidDriver driver;

public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException
{
	DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
	capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "AQUAR2");
	capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "Andriod");
	capabilities.setCapability("platformVersion", "4.2.2");
	capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "com.android.mms");
	capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", "com.android.mms.ui.ConversationList");

	driver = new AndroidDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4738/wd/hub/"), capabilities);
}

}

[jitenderbhardwaj]

If you're still unable to understand then tell me your mail id then i will send you the links and videos for the same.

[Yaniv_Eliav]

Thank you so much.
please send it to my mail.
eliav.yaniv@gmail.com

problem is I'm using C# and I don't have AndroidDriver.

These are my using and I'm probably missing something:

using System;
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using NUnit.Framework;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;
using OpenQA.Selenium.IE;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Remote;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.PageObjects;
//Appium
using Appium.Interfaces.Generic;
using Appium.Interfaces.Generic.SearchContext;
using Appium.Interfaces;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Appium.Service;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Appium.Android;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Appium.Interfaces;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Appium;

[Shobhit_Mathur]

Hi,

I have a scenario where i do a registration on the app i am testing and it send a message to the registered mobile number. So my capabilities for App & Activities are set for the main app & not for the Messages app.
I am using the startActivity method of AndroidDriver to start the messages app. But when i provide com.android.mms as app & com.android.mms.ui.ConversationList as activity as parameters, it fails to start the app because of permissions issues.

Can anyone help me out with this issue?

Thanks
Shobhit

[Yaniv_Eliav]

The workaround I found useful is using the notification bar and wait for the message to pop up there.

[Shobhit_Mathur]

That's what i am using in the interim, but i also need to test the scenario where multiple registration requests are sent across. In such a case, i will need to go through multiple SMS.
For one SMS, this workaround is working. But i need to find a way to launch the app.

I have one more question - is there a difference between how the app is launched by setting the driver capabilities and when using the startActivity method?