I want to develop a application which is a standalone application and doesn't let other applications to be run on the device. I understood that they are typically a kiosk application and Android supports it natively. However, I would like to create a web app using reactjs and run it on a tablet with kiosk mode. Is it possible? If so please help me with the details
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I have used tools like Robot Framework in the past that use Appium (under the hood) to automate mobile apps. I was wondering if Cypress has a similar feature or functionality that allows the user to automate mobile apps with it?
Cypress can't automate native mobile apps. It can be used to test mobile apps built with web app frameworks. My own personal experience is that this is fairly complex, and would probably suggest using a different framework built specifically for mobile apps (or the mobile framework your app is built in.) From Cypress:
Do you support native mobile apps?
Cypress will never be able to run on a native mobile app, but we can test some functionality of mobile web browsers and test mobile applications that are developed in a browser, such as with the Ionic framework.
Currently you can control the viewport with the cy.viewport() command to test responsive, mobile views in a website or web application. You can also mimic certain behaviors like swiping using custom commands.
You can read about testing mobile applications with Ionic and Cypress here and see how we manage testing the mobile viewport in the Cypress Real World App.
I want to automate a SOTI KIOSK mode mobile app. I am not familiar with the KIOSK mode app.
Currently, I am working with Appium for Regular Mobile app (Native app).
Questions:
Can we able to automate the KIOSK mode android app with Appium? if so, could you please provide some details to initiate?
What are all the Test Automation tools we can use for the KIOSK mode android app?
Expectation: Need more details to automate the KIOSK mode android app.
Actual: Confusion on supporting test automation tool for KIOSK mode android app
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Muthu Ramasamy
This is not supported behavior of Kiosk mode. The whole point of Kiosk mode is to lock down any non-surface level activity, including automation. You cannot access developer settings in Kiosk mode at all. I have been down this path with my current project and we were told by our device provider that this was not possible.
You have to put the device in admin mode in order to automate it. This is a limitation of adb.
I am learning about Kiosk devices. I am going through the docs but stumbled across this thing.
As per docs-
Kiosk Apps are Chrome Apps that are designed to always run fullscreen using Single App Kiosk Mode on Chrome OS and do not allow the user to exit the app. They're great for a purpose-built Chrome device, such as a guest registration desk, a library catalog station, or a point-of-sale system in a store.
There is also a mention of Kiosk Mode
It is an Android kiosk app that replaces the default Home Screen or Launcher and restricts user to accessonly one application or a few allowed applications. ... It has become common to use off-the-shelf mobile devices to run business applications or self-service kiosks.
Though I am unable to understand as to how to develop a Kiosk app for Android.
Yes, you can build kiosk apps in android.
In addition to Morrison Chang's link in their comment I suggest you to read this article for more practical approach.
Note: This article has a point on making layer that catches user drag events and such. On newer Android versions(8.0) this no longer works.
You can create Kiosk application. From Lolipop 5.0 google is providing api for that.
https://developer.android.com/work/cosu
You can use Pinning or LockTask to achieve the Kiosk application feature.
Some like of sample git application
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You can make kiosk device by making your application owner of the device and then pinning the app on the device.
Please follow the below link it gives the detailed concept of making an application an owner device and then you can pin it using the code for pinning
https://medium.com/#ashubansal.ashishbansal/make-your-android-device-a-kiosk-device-so-that-no-one-can-open-anything-in-your-device-except-the-3bb42a0db8ea
If you are using a dedicated device for your kiosk app you can use the Android For Work APIs to have a single application or multi application kiosk.
Lock task mode API from the android allows you to lock the specific app to run on the device and always on the foreground. This will disable the Home button and Overview button as well making a true kiosk mode experience.
In order to use the API, you need to use the DevicePolicyManager and run your application as Device owner.
You can also refer here for details on how to create a Kiosk app
https://blog.esper.io/best-way-to-build-android-apps-in-kiosk-mode
I developed native iOS and Android based applications with a dot net server.
I didn't use any cross-platform capabilities.
Now I have a new requirement that enforces me to install my application on windows phone and tablet.
Do I need to develop a new window based application from scratch?
Thanks.
As far as I know, yes. Either you'll have to rewrite the app for Windows Phone specifically or for cross-platform but I don't know any way of running a native Android app on a Windows phone.
I developed an application in android studio which is run on mobile device. Now i want to run the Same application in smart watch.
Is it possible?
If it is possible than What configuration do i need to change?
Please Help.