Pushing photo to Android photo gallery

[Ling-Yi Kung]

Is there a way to upload a photo to the photo gallery? There's driver.pushFile(), but I'm not sure where the file is pushed onto the device.

Currently, my tests execute the following through the command line,

adb push /path/to/file /mnt/sdcard/Pictures
adb shell am broadcast -a android.intent.action.MEDIA_MOUNTED -d file:///mnt/sdcard/Pictures

but it gets complicated when running on the grid. Is there an example of uploading a photo to the photo gallery using pushFile()? This issue reply said that it's possible.

[bootstrap online]

example: https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/e6c485df0d07007bfcdd2f3946620022873a6abf/test/functional/android/apidemos/file-movement-specs.js#L18

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[Ling-Yi Kung]

So I can push a photo using driver.pushFile("/mnt/sdcard/Pictures", imageBytes), but is there a way to broadcast the intent (which makes the image available in the Gallery)? Or do I have to still do that through the command line? It would be awesome to have a way to execute adb commands without using exec().

[bootstrap online]

I opened an enhancement request about broadcasting intents.
https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/3172

In terms of arbitrary adb commands, you could open an issue for that.
It's been discussed before and seems unlikely.

[Ling-Yi Kung]

Awesome, thanks for the enhancement request! :)