Recommendations for using appium with Android emulators (AVD, Buildroid, etc.)?

[Michael Burnside]

Hi everyone,

I am starting to write some mobile tests against Android applications using Appium, but I am having a lot of intermittent/very slow behavior from emulators created using AVD, and VirtualBox/Buildroid (all latest versions) aren't working well.

Any recommendations on which ones to use that work somewhat well or stable compared to iOS/Xcode simulators?

[Vic Wong]

We use genymotion's emulators and found it to be the most stable. http://www.genymotion.com/

If you haven't tried HAXM for the built in android emulator, it will definitely help with speed. https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/android-hax-emulator.md

-v

[Jonathan Lipps]

use an x86 emulator with haxm and GPU support. it's quite fast.

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[Michael Burnside]

I have downloaded the latest version of Genymotion and downloaded a few of the emulators with Api 17 and 18, but it seems that Appium cannot start the app or interact with it like it does on iOS. I have enabled the device for developer mode. anything else I need to do?

I noticed that when I run the tests, if I click on the app, Appium can test on the app once it is loaded and rendered on the device, but starting/stopping doesn't work without manual intervention. what am I doing wrong?

any help appreciated - thanks!

[bootstrap online]

It works for me using the regular emulator.

[Aniket Gadre]

Genymotion works absolutely fine and so far they r the fastest emulators I have ever used

On Nov 20, 2013 8:36 PM, "bootstrap online" <ma...@bootstraponline.com> wrote:

It works for me using the regular emulator.

[Michael Burnside]

Hi guys, it seems the problem was that the launcher activity class for our app changed. It is works now with appium and, yes, very fast. 

[bootstrap online]

Genymotion is great if you don't know how to setup the regular emulator.

[bootstrap online]

I think newer versions of appium should work with genymotion. Maybe
someone on the list can help.

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Subashni Prasanna <subas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi ,
> i am trying to appium app and start the emulator created via geny motion ..
> but when i try to launch i am getting this error
>
> ebug: 0 emulator(s) connected
>
> debug: Launching Emulator with AVD @genymotiontest, launchTimeout 120000ms
> and readyTimeout 120000ms
>
> debug: Checking whether emulator is present
>
> debug: Using emulator from
> /Users/guesttest/Downloads/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/tools/emulator
>
> debug: Trying to find genymotiontest emulator
>
> debug: Getting connected emulators
>
> debug: Getting connected devices...
>
> debug: executing:
> "/Users/guesttest/Downloads/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb"
> devices
>
>
> debug: 0 device(s) connected
>
>
> debug: 0 emulator(s) connected
>
>
> error: Unable to start Emulator: PANIC: Could not open: genymotiontest
>
>
>
> debug: Trying to find genymotiontest emulator
>
>
> debug: Getting connected emulators
>
> debug: Getting connected devices...
>
> debug: executing:
> "/Users/guesttest/Downloads/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb"
> devices
>
> Any help in configuration would be really helpful
>
>
> regards
>
> subs