Android - Troubleshooting

If you cannot find the solution to your problem in the troubleshooting section, please contact our customer support.

This page is related to both Android platforms in Suitest:

  • Android TV (including Amazon Fire TV)
  • Android mobile (phones and tablets)
Restart SuitestDrive

Restart SuitestDrive after applying any fixes to allow changes to take effect.

ADB system installation

If you are having some unusual problems starting Android tests, this might be due to there being two ADB versions installed on the computer running the SuitestDrive that was used to add the Android device. A ADB version is installed by SuitestDrive and if you have a local ADB installation then they may collide.

SuitestDrive automatically moves the local ADB executable (if it exits) to the resources folder only after SuitestDrive is restarted. If you are experiencing problems restart SuitestDrive.

Adding Android device fails

If adding a device fails, please check/do the following:

  • Reboot the Android device.

  • Check that the device is connected to the Internet.

  • The device IP address you specified in Suitest is correct and reachable from the machine hosting SuitestDrive. To check this open cmd (or some other terminal) on the host machine and type ping [ANDROID DEVICE IP ADDRESS] if the ping request does not fail with a conclusive error the IP address is correct.

  • As a last measure restart SuitestDrive or the host computer.

Multiple build.gradle files instrumentation

Your project will contain multiple build.gradle files, do not put the Implementation lines to the one in the root, instead choose the modules which you would like to instrument.

In our case (visible on the screenshot), the Implementation code needs to be put into app/build.gradle. If you would put the Implementation lines to the root build.gradle you would see the same error as on the screenshot in the bottom right.

Implementation lines inserted incorrectly

If you cannot connect to your Android device from ADB

There are several scenarios of what can be blocking your device:

  1. Your device is connected to the SuitestDrive which is running. Please close the SuitestDrive and try again.
  2. You are connected to the device through Android studio. Please close the connection and try again.
  3. You are connected to the device directly from the command line.
  4. One of your colleagues is connected from ADB.

Gathering logcat log from your Android device

The logcat from Android devices is very useful when troubleshooting or debugging. To retrieve the logcat do the following in your terminal or command line (on the computer which is running SuitestDrive controlling these devices):

  1. adb shell
  2. logcat -c
  3. Do the actions that are causing you issues within Suitest.
  4. logcat -d
  5. Copy the full contents of the log.
  6. Optionally, create a simple text file with the contents.

If you have multiple Android devices connected

  1. adb -s <IP of the device> shell
  2. logcat -c
  3. Do the actions that are causing you issues within Suitest.
  4. logcat -d
  5. Copy the full contents of the log.
  6. Optionally, create a simple text file with the contents.

Video properties are not working

Please make sure that your video player is based on the VideoView class. If you are using a different player, look at following page.

Manufacturer-specific issues

Application installation is forbidden on Xiaomi

Make sure that the device has Developer options unlocked.

Please follow the steps below to fix the problem:

  1. Open Developer options (under Settings -> Additional settings)

  2. Turn off "MIUI optimization" (if you have not yet done) and restart the device

  3. Turn on "USB debugging"

  4. Turn on "Install via USB"

  5. Set up "USB configuration" value to "No data" (works also with "PTP")

  6. Add again the device to Suitest

I cannot test a dialog element

Not being able to test a dialog can be caused by using a pure dialog solution. Unfortunately, Suitest does not support this due to technical limitations. What we do support is using the FragmentManager API.

Here are 2 examples of a dialog element that Suitest can test:

// the first solution
public class TransactionDialogFragment extends DialogFragment {

    @NonNull
    @Override
    public Dialog onCreateDialog(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        AlertDialog alertDialog = new MyAlertDialog(getActivity());
        alertDialog.setOwnerActivity(getActivity());
        return alertDialog;
    }
}
FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction = getFragmentManager().beginTransaction();
fragmentTransaction.add(new TransactionDialogFragment(), "dialogFragment");
fragmentTransaction.commitAllowingStateLoss();

// the second solution
public class LoginNonSupportDialog extends DialogFragment {

    public static LoginNonSupportDialog newInstance() {
        return new LoginNonSupportDialog();
    }

    @Nullable
    @Override
    public View onCreateView(@NonNull LayoutInflater inflater, @Nullable ViewGroup container, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        return inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_dialog_layout, container);
    }

}
LoginNonSupportDialog newFragment = LoginNonSupportDialog.newInstance();
newFragment.show(getFragmentManager(), "login");

On the other hand, here is an example of not working solution (when the dialog is added to the tree view without FragmentManager API):

public class LoginPureDialog extends DialogFragment {

    public static LoginPureDialog newInstance(Activity activity) {
        LoginPureDialog loginPureDialog = new LoginPureDialog();
        loginPureDialog.setActivity(activity);
        return loginPureDialog;
    }

    private Activity activity;

    public void setActivity(Activity activity) {
        this.activity = activity;
    }

    @Override
    public Dialog getDialog() {
        AlertDialog.Builder dialogBuilder = new AlertDialog.Builder(activity);
        View root = activity.getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.alert_dialog, null);
        dialogBuilder.setView(root);
        final AlertDialog alertDialog = dialogBuilder.create();
        return alertDialog;
    }
}
LoginPureDialog newFragment = LoginPureDialog.newInstance(LoginDialogActivity.this);
newFragment.getDialog().show();