App crawler in Android Jetpack tool not working locally as mentioned in developers documentation

Question

I am using the following command:

java -jar crawl_launcher.jar --apk-file path/to/my/app.apk --android-sdk path/to/my/android/sdk

I followed the steps mentioned in the https://developer.android.com/training/testing/crawler but it's not even installing the app on the connected device, forget about crawling. Anything that I am missing? I have also referred https://android.jlelse.eu/test-robo-scripts-locally-useful-for-firebase-test-lab-pre-launch-reports-41da83d5769f

Takakotakakura

You need to make sure you install the instrumentation apk first. Running ./gradlew connected<YourBuildFlavor>AndroidTest should do that. Then run the crawler. – Slacker

also i have same issue crawler dosent do any thing but the diffrenc is here i am using --app-package-name becuase my app is app bundle os i ahve istalled it on emulator and want to run crawler but no sucess i also run this with an other sample app architecture-components-samples but no luck seet the crawler log output – Homograph

@Slacker can you elaborate on this? maybe send example or ref – Millner

The app crawler needs the instrumentation apk that is generated for your app. This is an apk that gets generated for you when running instrumentation tests. Running connectedAndroidTest (if no flavors are defined will generate and install the instrumentation apk). After that is done, then you can run the crawler. – Slacker

Answer 1

Try on an emulator Android 9, api28.

https://medium.com/@denysiakimov/how-to-run-android-app-crawler-testing-tool-a0d6f387e89e

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