Ubuntu uiautomatorviewer Error while parsing UI hierarchy XML file

Question

I am making this question for future searchers that might be as newbie as me. And also because I have not enough reputation to add comments on other answers.

• The error mentioned still happened after trying the following approaches:

  1. Turn on USB DEBUGGING
  2. Enable view attribute inspection
  3. Select the debug app option and choose com.github.uiautomator

  Error in using UIAutomatorviewer for testing Android app in Appium

  Error obtaining UI hierarchy Error while obtaining UI hierarchy XML file: com.android.ddmlib.SyncException: Remote object doesn't exist

The problem was that the whereis uiautomatorviewer throwed this path /usr/bin/uiautomatorviewer

Solution

The one that actually does the work is /root/Android/Sdk/tools/bin/uiautomatorviewer

Answer 1

The problem was that the linux command

whereis uiautomatorviewer

throwed this path /usr/bin/uiautomatorviewer

Solution

The one that actually does the work is /root/Android/Sdk/tools/bin/uiautomatorviewer