Appium desired capabilities for Android

In our previous post, we understood about Appium desired capabilities. Appium supports Android, iOS and FirefoxOS platforms, hence there are some platform specific desired capabilities.

Here we have listed all the desired capabilities for Android. Most of them are optional capabilities, but these will come handy when you are writing full blown test automation for Android.

Capability	Description	Values
appActivity	Activity name for the Android activity you want to launch from your package	MainActivity, .Settings
appPackage	Java package of the Android app you want to run	com.example.android.myApp, com.android.settings
appWaitActivity	Activity name for the Android activity you want to wait for	SplashActivity
appWaitPackage	Java package of the Android app you want to wait for	com.example.android.myApp, com.android.settings
deviceReadyTimeout	Timeout in seconds while waiting for device to become ready	5
androidCoverage	Fully qualified instrumentation class. Passed to -w in adb shell am instrument -e coverage true -w	com.my.Pkg/ com.my.Pkg.instrumentation .MyInstrumentation
enablePerformanceLogging	(Chrome and webview only) Enable Chromedriver’s performance logging (default false)	true, false
androidDeviceReadyTimeout	Timeout in seconds used to wait for a device to become ready after booting	e.g., 30
androidDeviceSocket	Devtools socket name. Needed only when tested app is a Chromium embedding browser. The socket is open by the browser and Chromedriver connects to it as a devtools client.	e.g., chrome_devtools_remote
avd	Name of avd to launch	e.g., api19
avdLaunchTimeout	How long to wait in milliseconds for an avd to launch and connect to ADB (default 120000)	300000
avdReadyTimeout	How long to wait in milliseconds for an avd to finish its boot animations (default 120000)	300000
avdArgs	Additional emulator arguments used when launching an avd	e.g., -netfast
useKeystore	Use a custom keystore to sign apks, default false	true or false
keystorePath	Path to custom keystore, default ~/.android/debug.keystore	e.g., /path/to.keystore
keystorePassword	Password for custom keystore	e.g., foo
keyAlias	Alias for key	e.g., androiddebugkey
keyPassword	Password for key	e.g., foo
chromedriverExecutable	The absolute local path to webdriver executable (if Chromium embedder provides its own webdriver, it should be used instead of original chromedriver bundled with Appium)	/abs/path/to/webdriver
specialChromedriverSessionArgs	Custom arguments passed directly to chromedriver in chromeOptions capability. Passed as object which properties depend on a specific webdriver.	e.g., {'androidDeviceSocket': 'opera_beta_devtools_remote',}
autoWebviewTimeout	Amount of time to wait for Webview context to become active, in ms. Defaults to 2000	e.g. 4
intentAction	Intent action which will be used to start activity (default android.intent.action.MAIN)	e.g.android.intent.action.MAIN, android.intent.action.VIEW
intentCategory	Intent category which will be used to start activity (default android.intent.category.LAUNCHER)	e.g. android.intent .category.LAUNCHER, android.intent .category.APP_CONTACTS
intentFlags	Flags that will be used to start activity (default 0x10200000)	e.g. 0x10200000
optionalIntentArguments	Additional intent arguments that will be used to start activity. See Intent arguments	e.g. --esn , --ez , etc.
unicodeKeyboard	Enable Unicode input, default false	true or false
resetKeyboard	Reset keyboard to its original state, after running Unicode tests with unicodeKeyboard capability. Ignored if used alone. Default false	true or false
noSign	Skip checking and signing of app with debug keys, will work only with UiAutomator and not with selendroid, default false	true or false
ignoreUnimportantViews	Calls the setCompressedLayoutHierarchy() uiautomator function. This capability can speed up test execution, since Accessibility commands will run faster ignoring some elements. The ignored elements will not be findable, which is why this capability has also been implemented as a toggle-able setting as well as a capability. Defaults to false	true or false
disableAndroidWatchers	Disables android watchers that watch for application not responding and application crash, this will reduce cpu usage on android device/emulator. This capability will work only with UiAutomator and not with selendroid, default false	true or false
chromeOptions	Allows passing chromeOptions capability for chrome driver. For more information see chromeOptions	chromeOptions: {args: ['--disable-popup-blocking']}

Credits : https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/caps.md

This is it about Desired capabilities for Android. In our coming posts, we see Desired capabilities specific to iOS


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