How run ADB Commands in Robot Framework

[Pierre Patey]

What is the syntax of an ADB command to run it via Robot Framework and retrieve the result in a variable

[Tatu Aalto]

Ugh

If you plan to do really simple ADB commands which do not generate more than few lines of output and are planning to do less than four ADB commands/keywords, then I would look to the Process [1] library direction. But I did write a library around ADB, by using Python subprocess[2] library, which allowed me to do more complex commands, capture errors better and handle large output in unified way. Also writing a library allowed to use devices which are attached to the the local PC and in some cloud provider in unified manner.

When I now think about the problem, writing a library and open source the library would be nice idea. Unfortunately I don't anymore work for the company where I did write the library, so I am not anymore able to do it. But I can recommend the subprocess and writing a small library on top of it, it really did pay off in the long run.

-Tatu
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[1] http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/libraries/Process.html

[2] https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html

On Jan 29, 2018 16:24, "Pierre Patey" <pierre...@gmail.com> wrote:

What is the syntax of an ADB command to run it via Robot Framework and retrieve the result in a variable

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[Alex C.]

It would most definitely make sense to imlpement an adb test library for this, as there you can parse your output (if needed), handle exceptions and even support multiple devices - we have 3 different phones connected to a device thus I work with device id's.

To answer an incoming call:

subprocess.call(['adb', '-s', devid, 'shell', 'input', 'keyevent', 'KEYCODE_CALL'])