How to get an instance of android.app.UiAutomation

Question

I am testing some new features of Android 5.0, and now is the round of the UiAutomator and the new method implemented. I've tried to search for an example/guide, then I've tried to get an instance of UiAutomator by

getSystemService()

but that was not helpful. My goal is to use executeShellCommands(String str).

Has anyone already implemented?

Answer 1

Just to clarify, the UiAutomation class is not part of UiAutomator (although they have similar names).

You can obtain a UiAutomation instance by calling Instrumentation#getUiAutomation(). This only works if you're running an Instrumentation-based test.

If this is part of a shell-based UiAutomator test, then you can use Runtime#exec() to execute a shell command.