Screenshots in android example

[aslakhellesoy]

This is an extension of #547.

We should have an after hook that calls scenario.embed to embed a screenshot. The current android formatter just ignores them, but it should be improved so that the screenshots can be accessed on the local filesystem after the run.

Alternatively they could use HTTP to post them somewhere.

[aslakhellesoy]

Robotium 4.2 has screenshot capability built-in: http://robotium.googlecode.com/svn/doc/index.html

This should make it easy to embed the image bytes from /sdcard/Robotium-Screenshots/. It can even create animated gifs - very cool.

[SierraGolf]

I would recommend to have a look here: https://github.com/calabash/screenshotTaker

This little helper from the calabash guys works much better, than the one from robotium, with which I had a few issues like:

• missing background views/images
• in case of a dialog, just capturing the dialog and not the complete picture

[arunks]

I am trying to resolve this bug. Max, how do I grab a hold of the failed object when running with cucumber instrumentation?

[mfellner]

@arunks I'm not sure what your mean by "failed object". Inside CucumberInstrumentation, the AndroidReporter is used to report a status back to the Instrumentation. That's where you can find out what the current Feature, Scenario and Step is.

[SierraGolf]

@aslakhellesoy is this just a request to extend the examples or is this about adding functionality to capture screenshots from within cucumber android?

[aslakhellesoy]

It's both :-). Would be nice to run the android example and see a report with a screenshot of the UI.

[SierraGolf]

I just discovered the "scenario parameter in hooks"-feature and the Scenario.embed(byte[], Sring) interface. So now I get what you mean by embedding a screenshot. :D

I am unsure if it makes sense to embed such a functionality into cucumber-android, but I will at least provide an example.

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