Question
does appium have inspector for android that runs on ubuntu? If so, how to install it. I have did enough searching. I'm pointed to MAC version of appium inspector, but not able to find if for Ubuntu. Any help much appreciated.
Solution
basically we need inspector for viewing name, id and other property of element in the android app, which I can use for test automation with appium.
We can use "Ui Automator Viewer" which we can find in android sdk folder "sdk/tools/uiautomatorviewer".
OTHER TIPS
If you have already installed android sdk and configured path skip step 1 and go to step 2 directly.
Step1: Download SDK for linux. Extract to home folder in linux
Then configure your sdk path in .bashrc file
To configure Type gedit .bashrc at terminal
Opens an text editor, type the folowing and save
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23327028
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export JAVA_HOME="/usr/bin/java"
export PATH=${PATH}:~/adt/sdk/tools
export PATH=${PATH}:~/adt/sdk/platform-tools
Step2: Then type uiautomatorviewer at your terminal to start uiautomatorviewer and get details of elements you want to inspect.
You will find UI Automator Viewer in your SDK folder under >tools>bin>uiautomatorviewer. Launch it using terminal. In terminal, cd to the path and lauch uiautomatorviewer by entering ./uiautomatorviewer
