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Gokul Palanisamy
Gokul Palanisamy

Reputation: 11

Android: How to run adb commands inside the android app?

I have requirement like i need to take a UI dump of each window that appears on my android app to verify resource-id given is unique.

basically i want do what this command "adb shell uiautomator dump" does inside the android app.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8594

Answers (1)

Dave
Dave

Reputation: 3208

@CommonsWare may be correct. But I tested the code below on two non-rooted devices and I was able to get an output. (Nexus 6P and Samsung S5)

@Gokul

I found the key was to NOT specify "adb shell" beforehand as it must be in the path already and I get a permission error if I attempt to use it.

Doing something like this: 

String command = "service list";
Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);

Worked for me running in a unit test on two real non-rooted devices.

This produces the same results as running the command: "adb shell service list" from the command prompt.

Upvotes: 2

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