Detox Test device.disableSynchronization() works on iOS but not android - android

My test suite runs fine on iOS, the app has many background processes running that prevent large portions of the tests from working in synchronized mode. The desynced commands run properly on the iOS simulator, but when I run them on the android emulator it is as if I never called await device.disableSynchronization().
The tests still hang and the console logs:
The app is busy, due to:
- Enqueued timers
- Animations running on screen
Any ideas about how to fix this?
Further review shows the error message:
The app has not responded to the network requests below:
The odd thing is the listed network request has been completed. The request upon which the app purportedly has not responded is a button push that navigates to a new screen which incurs a somewhat lengthy network request. After the network request completes other processes continually run necessitating the disabled synchronization. Since Detox is still waiting on some response from the app about the button tap, it does not move on to the next, desynchronized, actions. Is there any way to ensure that Detox receives the response of this .tap()?

A deeper investigation reveals that this is likely caused by a lingering animation that, for whatever reason device.disablesynchronization() ignores on Android builds. I am now working on mocking this file based on the out-of-date documentation provided by wix.

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#Test
fun firstUi() {
onView(withId(R.id.home_profile_tab)).perform(click())
onView(withId(R.id.enter)).perform(click())
onView(withId(R.id.tvCountryCode)).check(matches(withText("+964")))
}
This test run and passed
But the issue is, after running test and reaching to first line, the firs perform(click)) executed after around 90 seconds, and it is almost constant and every time it takes 90 seconds
But after that (90sec) other lines executed and test completed around 4 seconds and passed successfully
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Each time your test invokes onView(), Espresso waits to perform the
corresponding UI action or assertion until the following
synchronization conditions are met:
The message queue is empty.
There are no instances of AsyncTask currently executing a task.
All developer-defined idling resources are
idle.
So how and where can I investigate more to detect to root cause of issue???
Or what I'm doing wrong???
With the help of this post I found what was my issue
I live in iran and most of services because on sanctions are banned here
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I would like to debug a system framework running on an Android device.
In particular, GpsLocationProvider sometimes stops for a while, and I would like to know what it is doing. I found the class contains a android.os.Handler that gets messages posted to it, to communicate between threads. Sometimes it takes minutes between a message is sent, and Handler.handleMessage is called. I interpret that the thread belonging to the Handler's Looper is busy.
I would like to attach a debugger, pause that thread, and see what's currently executing. Alternatively, somehow get a traceback of that thread. Is there any way to do that?
I tried creating an Android Studio project from the source tree with development/tools/idegen/idegen.sh, but I'm not sure how to proceed from there. In case it matters, the (legacy) device is running Android 6.
I've also just discovered debuggerd. I call logcat -s GpsLocationProvider to find the corresponding PID, and feed it to debuggerd, both with and without -b argument. However, this only gives be a backtrace into native code. I don't see any java code there.
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This way you can pause the execution of the component's code and see what it's doing.

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I recently began writing a phonegap android application and noticed that when the app is resumed from the background (so I deploy the app to an android tablet, press the home button and then reopen the app from the menu) it gives a timeout error (something to the effect of Error code =-6 The connection to the server was unsuccessful) and then crashes. From what I've tested this only seems to happen when the "Don't keep activities" option is checked in the developer options, when that option is not checked the app works as intended.
It's also worth noting that I recreated the default phonegap application, ran it and encountered the same issue.
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Josh
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Your issue (which I've just ran into on v2.7) comes from a silly implementation of a timeout feature. CordovaWebView.loadUrlIntoView creates and locks (wait()) a thread for 20 seconds (default value), after which time it checks a value to see if the url finished loading - if it hasn't finished, it shows an error message.
This thread exists outside of the lifetime of your activity, so if the activity stops running, the Webview can never finish loading the url, and when the thread wakes up, it does Bad Things trying to show the error.
The same crash could happen without using "Don't keep activities" by simply having the user leave the application and then the system reclaiming the activity's resources (because it is low on memory or something) within 20 seconds.
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Call System.exit(0) at the end of your Activity.onDestroy() - this is horrible, but if you only have the one activity and no services, it might be an option
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I have having problems with a WSDL/SOAP service call in an app I have built in flash builder for mobile. I have connected to the service using flash builders built in data/services functionality.
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Your question lacks essential details, so now I can suggest you to setup Charles proxy and monitor you requests trough it.
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I have developed an android app on which i want to run the robotium test cases. The first problem i have is, In my app i am using so many web service calls to interact with the server, Whenever the app hits the server i am displaying a progress dialog, Now i want to make wait the robotium until the app get response from the server but i can make wait for some time using waitForDialogToClose(), Actually i want to make it wait exactly till it get some response or error from the server. How to do it..??
And the Second problem is i am doing some uploading data(eg. file or image) to server and i am displaying progress bar for it, In this case i want to make wait robotium until my progress bar reaches it max value. Please help..
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Robotium is a black box testing framework : you test an app from the UI layer and it can even run without any knowledge of the code of the app under test.
For this reason, from robotium you can't plug a listener in your model or rest client and wait till the response comes into your app. So, you have two options :
relaying on the UI as you do, waiting for a given state to appear in the UI, as you suggested with a dialog, or the content of a list, whatever.
wait for some time before continuing the test, a time at which you are pretty sure data will be there. But this is more risky and will fail more often.
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