query to get the device orientation

[sahiti ch]

Is there any way that we can get the orientation of a device??

Thanks

Sahiti

[Noffica]

Do wish to check whether the orientation changes automatically depending on certain situations or do you simply wish to check the orientation before performing further actions?

[Jani Jegoroff]

I see three options:

1. Try out the simple gem I just published: https://rubygems.org/gems/android-adb-extension

See documentation and github page how to use it.

2. Query orientation using adb shell command.

3. Most probably your application source code contains an utility method to check current orientation. Call that method through Calabash backdoor.

[sahiti chittimotu]

I would like to check the orientation before performing further actions. At the moment,  I had a test to rotate the device using  perform_action('set_activity_orientation', 'landscape') however there's no verification step whether the device really rotated or not as we had it in iOS using backdoor method which returns the present device orientation. 

I will try these below options mentioned by Jani

Thanks

Sahiti

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Noffica <nauman....@goclio.com> wrote:

Do wish to check whether the orientation changes automatically depending on certain situations or do you simply wish to check the orientation before performing further actions?

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[sahiti chittimotu]

Hi Jani,

I have got this below adb command to return the device orientation, however is there a way to use this in ruby i.e inside our steps

adb shell dumpsys | grep 'SurfaceOrientation' |  awk '{ print $2 }'

Thanks

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[sahiti chittimotu]

It worked using below command... Thanks for your help.

system("adb shell dumpsys | grep 'SurfaceOrientation' | awk '{ print $2 }'")

[Jani Jegoroff]

Yep, that will work. However, it is quite slow command (will take 2-3 seconds to complete).

To make it faster: https://github.com/JaniJegoroff/android-adb-extension/blob/master/lib/android-adb-extension/adb.rb#L16

[sahiti chittimotu]

Thank you very much Jani.  Now I have added this gem ' android-adb-extension' to my gemFile. 

It's working perfectly for all my rotation needs.

Thanks

[sahiti ch]

Hi Jani,

All of my rotation tests are failing on Jenkins with below error, on my local machine working fine. Can't figure it out what might have gone wrong. 

 No such file or directory - adb (Errno::ENOENT)
      /var/lib/jenkins/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/android-adb-extension-0.0.1/lib/android-adb-extension/adb.rb:66:in ``'
      /var/lib/jenkins/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/android-adb-extension-0.0.1/lib/android-adb-extension/adb.rb:66:in `set_accelerometer_control'
      /var/lib/jenkins/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/android-adb-extension-0.0.1/lib/android-adb-extension/adb.rb:28:in `After'

Please help me?

Thanks

[Jani Jegoroff]

Could you take latest version (android-adb-extension-0.0.3) in use?

Is Android SDK installed correctly to the Jenkins? What happens if you execute command adb in jenkins terminal?

[sahiti chittimotu]

Hi Jani,

When i executed adb command in the jenkins terminal, it returned 'command not found'.

So I have executed: 1)    'apt-get install android-tools-adb'  command, then 2)  adb

Now it returned below output:

 -a                            - directs adb to listen on all interfaces for a connection

 -d                            - directs command to the only connected USB device

                                 returns an error if more than one USB device is present.

 -e                            - directs command to the only running emulator.

                                 returns an error if more than one emulator is running.

......etc

However on my jenkins, tests are still failing with the below error

ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *

Thanks

Sahiti

[Jani Jegoroff]

I'm not familiar installing android tools via apt-get. I recommend you install android tools via android SDK manager.

[sahiti chittimotu]

Hi Jani,

Android tools have already installed in Jenkins machine by using Android SDK manager. 

When I executed  'which adb' command, it returned:     /usr/lib/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/adb

Thanks

Sahiti