docs/android_uiautomator

Help debugging

  • adb shell uiautomator events
    • Prints out accessibility events to the console until the connection to the device is terminated
    • URL
    • notice
      • If Appium is started then it terminates the other uiautomator processes

uiautomator2

difference between uiautomator1 and uiautomator2

  • find_element/s :id, "ids"
    • uiautomator1
      • Find elements with resource_id
      • Find elements with string id resource(string.xml based)
    • uiautomator2
      • Find elements with resource_id
    • from: Does not appium-uiautomator2-server support finding string ids with “id” strategy? issue