Appium/wdio - unable to dismiss location permissions alert on Android

Question

I\'m using webdriver.io to write a suite of Appium tests for a hybrid Cordova App.

\"appium\": \"^1.10.0\",
\"wdio-appium-service\": \"^0.2.3\",
\"wdio-jasmi         


        

Answer 1

1. The permission dialog is native, so you don't need to switch to the webview to dismiss it.
2. There is an android id associated with the allow/deny permission button, so you can use that instead of the identifier you have used.

The id for allow button is: com.android.packageinstaller:id/permission_allow_button .
The id for deny button is: com.android.packageinstaller:id/permission_deny_button

Answer 2

There is autoGrantPermissions DesiredCapability, if you set it to true - Appium will automatically determine which permissions are required by your application and grant them to the application during the installation procedure.

The capability is set to false by default so you need to explicitly set it like:

DesiredCapabilities dc = new DesiredCapabilities();
dc.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.NO_RESET, false);
dc.setCapability(AndroidMobileCapabilityType.AUTO_GRANT_PERMISSIONS, true);
driver = new AndroidDriver<>(url, dc);

More information:

• Appium Desired Capabilities
• Application Setup