Gotron

Gotron is a Node.js library which provides a high level API to control an android device over the android debug bridge. Gotron is able to use emulated devices and real devices

What can I do?

Most things that ca be done with android can be automated with this tool. Here are a few examples:

• Take screenshots of from the device
• Navigate apps and scrape their data
• Write automated tests for your app

Getting started

Requirements

When you want to use this tool, you should have adb installed on your computer, as well as the emulator tool provided by android. These tools are command line tools. so make sure you add them to the path environment variable when installing

Installation

To use gotron in your project, run:

npm i gotron
# or `yarn add gotron`
# or `pnpm i gotron`

Usage

Gotron follows the latest maintenance LTS version of Node.

Example

The following example opens the Chrome browser and navigates to the npm package of gotron. Takes a screenshot and then closes chrome

import { Emulator } from ".gotron/lib/device/Emulator";
import { DefaultApps } from "gotron/lib/app/DefaultApps";
import { waitForMs } from "gotron/lib/utils/DeviceTools";


(async () => {
  const emulator = await Emulator.connectToEmulator(5555);

  await emulator.apps.startActivity({
    appPackage: DefaultApps.CHROME,
    activityPackage: "org.chromium.chrome.browser.ChromeTabbedActivity"
  });
  const hierarchy = await emulator.hierarchy();
  const searchField = hierarchy.findElementsByText("Search or type", true)[0];

  await searchField.type("https://www.npmjs.com/package/gotron");
  await emulator.inputs.enter();

  await waitForMs(5000); // Wait 5 seconds to give the device some time to load the website
  await emulator.inputs.click(594, 1590);

  await waitForMs(100);
  await emulator.screenshot("chrome.png");

  await emulator.apps.killApp(DefaultApps.CHROME);
})();

API

Resources

• API Docs
• Examples