Slave for Android UI Test

[Kirshan Luhana]

Hi

I heard there is some difference between running UI / Android projects from studio and Jenkins.

We are setting Jenkins slave first time for UI test, is there any special consideration for setting Android / Gradle environment , versions, environment variables and some special plugins / tools to install ?

We are using

android.tools.build:gradle:1.0.1
compileSdkVersion 22
    buildToolsVersion '21.1.2'
    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 16
        targetSdkVersion 22

[Christopher Orr]

On 14/10/15 00:58, Kirshan Luhana wrote:
> I heard there is some difference between running UI / Android projects
> from studio and Jenkins.

I don't know where/what you heard, but there shouldn't be any
Jenkins-specific issues. You can already build Android apps from the
command line using Gradle, and doing it in Jenkins is no different.

> We are setting Jenkins slave first time for UI test, is there any
> special consideration for setting Android / Gradle environment ,
> versions, environment variables and some special plugins / tools to
> install ?

The easiest way to build an app with Jenkins (or anywhere) is to add the
SDK Manager Gradle plugin to your Android project:
https://github.com/JakeWharton/sdk-manager-plugin

Building on Jenkins then just requires checking out the source code, and
running the ./gradlew task(s) you want — either with an "Execute shell"
step, or by using the Gradle plugin.

If you additionally want Jenkins to run an emulator for UI tests, you
can use this plugin:
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Android+Emulator+Plugin

Regards,
Chris

[Kirshan Luhana]

Thank you very much for this guide, we are already using this procedure.

Actually we are facing some ui tests fail with different errors on different JDK , Android build tools settings. When we asked developers to run test on their system they argue that these test only be run via Jenkins. As I am new to Jenkins so wonder if there is some special configurations with jenkins.