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Questions tagged [android]

For questions related to testing Google's Android operating system.

Android is a mobile OS (operating system) created by Google.

The official Android site: http://www.android.com/meet-android/

There's also an Android enthusiasts StackExchange: https://android.stackexchange.com/

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Unable to launch uiautomator in mac terminal

I am unable to launch uiautomator through mac terminal. I get the below error when I typed Android or Uiautomator in the terminal, or click uiautomator from tool…
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How to resolve - "adb server version (32) doesn't match this client (36); killing..."

I executed cmd adb devices from terminal but instead of getting list of connected devices, I observed below error: List of devices attached adb server version (32) doesn't match this client (36); killing... * daemon started successfully * How can I…
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Testing an Android App on different phone models and Android versions

I have an Android app. Occasionally, some user reports an issue that is reproducible only on their particular phone/OS version combination. I cannot possibly get all phone models to try and reproduce the issue. So what is a good strategy to…
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What are 'MUST' test cases to test Push Notification for Android app?

I am testing Android app which has Push Notification functionality. Could anybody tell what are those test cases that must be tested for Push Notifications? Android does NOT have Notification Center kind of thing so what different scenarios should…
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how do i make the case to management for QA to get a new android for testing the mobile platform?

Right now we only have the Sprint HTC Hero and I feel there is a need for a more recent model of android for QA testing our mobile platform. So, how do I make the case to management for QA to get a new android device for testing the mobile…
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Instrumented testing of Android Widget fails

When I try to run my Android instrumented on Google Cloud Platform I get the error: Your test artifact is not an android artifact My app is a Widget and I wonder if that's the reason? It works fine when testing on real device through USB. Android…
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While creating android AVD I am getting following error .Target id is not valid. Use 'android list targets' to get the target ids

I am using following command to create avd. ./android create avd -n YourAndroid -t 12 -c 100M I have installed all the packages and in the setting I have checked force htpps://..to be fetched using http:// But still the error I am using mac and…
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Best practices for testing for poor connection and offline support?

I am building an android app to be used in rural areas (Saharan Africa, waaaay off the grid). The mobile app pulls down maps and map info from a server, uses the data, creates some new data (takes pictures, records GPS coordinates, etc), and then…
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Is a web application bug found on the Android emulator more likely than not to be a legitimate bug?

Our company hopes to roll out support for mobile devices this year. We plan to go with a pure-browser solution. I am working on a strategy for testing our web application's mobile support. We will, of course, test with actual mobile devices. In…
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testing of android apps via web

What tools allow manual testing of android apps (apks) without installing google android emulator, and with low latency (where low is defined as no more than 4x slower than google emulator)? The latency seems to be the hard part to solve for. We…
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Testing Android app built for arm64

So far, I've been able to deploy and test Android applications on Android Emulator on my PC. This was possible because both APK was built for x86 architecture and my Ubuntu is running on x86 PC. Now, I have Android application as APK build for…
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How to notify customers an Android app will stop working after upgrading to Android 8

I am a mobile application tester who works in the R&D area of the premium German car company. How would you deal with the situation where your app stops working on the primary target device after upgrading to Android 8 because the hardware used in…
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Evolution of Android testing methods

I'm doing a research on Android testing methods and their evolution in time. Could someone point me in the right direction (recent articles, books) I'm finding a lot of material surfing blindly but it's hard to distinguish between obsolete…
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How can we mass download apks from Google Play and/or other stores for testing?

We are developing an android app that is using some PackageManager queries. We would like to test it on a wide range of APKs. We were thinking if we could get these from Google Play and/or other stores through some kind of mass download (e.g., if…
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Android studio emulator problem

When I try to start my emulator I receive the following: 20:09 adb server version (32) doesn't match this client (39); killing... 20:09 could not read ok from ADB Server 20:09 * failed to start daemon 20:09 error: cannot connect to…
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