I am trying to implement Androidviewclient to run viewbased scripts , is there any way i can install new packages using androidviewclient like the way we can with monkeyrunner using "device.installPackage()"
AndroidViewClient/culebra version 11.0.7 implements ViewClient.installPackage() and also introduces a new command line option --install-apk that generates a test precondition based on the result of the installation of the APK. See https://github.com/dtmilano/AndroidViewClient/wiki/Test-Cookbook#installing-apks-as-preconditions for details.
installPackage has not been implemented in AdbClient because it can be replaced by subprocess:
#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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Copyright (C) 2013-2014 Diego Torres Milano
Created on 2015-11-14 by Culebra v10.8.2
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@author: Diego Torres Milano
@author: Jennifer E. Swofford (ascii art snake)
'''
import re
import sys
import os
import subprocess
try:
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.environ['ANDROID_VIEW_CLIENT_HOME'], 'src'))
except:
pass
from com.dtmilano.android.viewclient import ViewClient
TAG = 'CULEBRA'
_s = 5
_v = '--verbose' in sys.argv
kwargs1 = {'ignoreversioncheck': False, 'verbose': False, 'ignoresecuredevice': False}
device, serialno = ViewClient.connectToDeviceOrExit(**kwargs1)
kwargs2 = {'forceviewserveruse': False, 'useuiautomatorhelper': False, 'ignoreuiautomatorkilled': True, 'autodump': False, 'startviewserver': True, 'compresseddump': True}
vc = ViewClient(device, serialno, **kwargs2)
apk="/path/to/my/app-debug.apk"
subprocess.check_call([vc.adb, "install", "-r", apk], shell=False)