Support for identifying Toasts in Android

nishant_shah 2015-09-15 11:08:59 UTC #1

Hi Team,
These days more and more applications are providing toast messages instead of an alert just because of very obvious reason of saving a tap on the alert button.
Is the support of toast anywhere in your near future backlog?

I am kind of stuck without it. I don't want to go the OCR way.

Thanks,
Nishant Shah

Aleksei 2015-09-15 17:45:15 UTC #2

i suggest to ask DEV increase toast message time to 5-10sec.
this should be enough to see it with appium. with 2-3sec it can be easily missed to detect.

nishant_shah 2015-09-16 10:04:58 UTC #3

Hi Aleksei,

I don't think its related to increasing the time of toast message.
Its some constraint of UIAutomator itself to identify the toast control.
The reason I am saying is I tried spying the UI of my app (having toast on it) using the UIAutomatorviewer object spy but it failed to recognize the toast.

If you have succeeded in doing so then please share the code. It would be a great help

Thanks in advance,
Nishant Shah

Umar_Khan 2015-09-16 20:32:45 UTC #4

I tried to automate the toast message on Android but UIAutomator can't detect it hence Appium can't either.

@ Aleksei : Please share the approach if you have done it successfully

Aleksei 2015-09-17 05:22:23 UTC #5

i was wrong. https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/968

only image recognition.