Identify Android device type - is it phone or tablet

[Kateryna Ts]

Hello,

I didn't find any solution to the question in the group and internet at all, could you please help me to resolve it.

Question: how to identify whether the device type, on which the test is running, is a phone or tablet?

Solution found:

adb shell command: device_type = %x[adb shell getprop ro.build.characteristics]

BUT

when I have severals devices connected to one machine it gives an error: error: more than one device and emulator

So is there any method to define this information about the device current test is running on?

Thank  you.

[Sher Bhachu]

adb -s DEVICE_SERIAL shell command: device_type = %x[adb shell getprop ro.build.characteristics]

[Kateryna Tsymbaliuk]

Thank you for the reply,

when I have severals devices connected to one machine - how to identify DEVICE_SERIAL of the device the test currently is executing on?

[Sher Bhachu]

well, to get the list of devices..

adb devices

you need to explicitly tell the system what device serial you want to run the tests against, so that problem is not going to occur.