UI automating of Android gallery with Appium

[green...@gmail.com]

Hello!
I have a test scenario, that include interaction with android gallery. There is android.view.View with resource-id com.android.gallery3d:id/gl_root_view. But unfortunately i can't get any identifiers for pictures in this view (by UI Automator Viewer, for example). Is there any workaround for interracting with pictures in android gallery with appium?
Thanks for advance.

[Sangeetha Srinivasan]

Currently we are using the device coordinates to access the albums and pictures, which is really a pain. I am looking forward to a nicer way as well

[bootstrap online]

The solution is to have the developers attach content descriptions to
the albums and pictures.

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[Andrew Dinh]

Uiautomator cannot select or see the thumbnails in Gallery.  So what you will have to do is determine the orientation of the device (portrait or landscape), then calculate the center coordinates of the thumbnail to be selected/tapped (for instance thumbnail 3 out of 7 thumbnails).  Then tap or long-tap on the coordinates.

[Sangeetha Srinivasan]

@bootstraponline , these are already existing albums / pics in the device, the app is not creating them

@AndrewDinh for each device model the gallery arrangement of albums and pictures are different, so the calculations should be very device specific, which is not cool! 

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Andrew Dinh <trieu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Uiautomator cannot select or see the thumbnails in Gallery.  So what you will have to do is determine the orientation of the device (portrait or landscape), then calculate the center coordinates of the thumbnail to be selected/tapped (for instance thumbnail 3 out of 7 thumbnails).  Then tap or long-tap on the coordinates.

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[ekjyot kaur]

Hi I am also facing the same issue. Sid u find any solution. As i Am not able to tap the images using coordinates and tap method of touchaction class.

Waiting for your positive reply.
Thanks