running screengrab

[John O'Reilly]

Is it only possible to use gradle_task and shell_task when using this? Would be great for example to be able to run screengrab.

[Kamil Krzyk]

Hello,

I have never used screengrab but I've just checked GitRepo of this tool. I will take a closer look at it tomorrow, yet I am quite sure that it should work.

You can start other fastlane lanes with usage of this tool. So for example you could try something like this:

     lane :assemble_apk_and_grab_screenshots do
         gradle(task: "assembleDebug assembleAndroidTest")
         Action.sh("screengrab")
     end

     lane :grab_screenshots do
     	automated_test_emulator_run(
          AVD_setup_path: "fastlane/MyConfigs/AVD_ConfigForScreengrab.json",
          shell_task: "fastlane assemble_apk_and_grab_screenshots"
        )
     end

1. So assemble_apk_and_grab_screenshots lane builds your .apk and android-test.apk to be ready for screengrab.
2. You wrap this lane into shell task.
3. Plugin will start AVDs according to your JSON config. Wait for AVD to fully launch. And then run fastlane assemble_apk_and_grab_screenshots.
4. Your AVDs will simply wait for *.apks to be built and then screengrab will launch. It should use currently available devices - AVDs which were launched by plugin and wait for shell task to finish.
5. After shell task finishes it's job AVDs are killed and deleted.

[John O'Reilly]

Thanks @FisherKK for the quick response! Will try that out. BTW am using screengrab from fastlane (such as below)....but same approach will work of course.

    lane :screenshots do |options|
        gradle(task: 'clean')
        gradle(
              task: "assembleDebug assembleDebugAndroidTest",
              properties: {
               ....
              }
        )

        screengrab(
            locales: ['en-US'],
            clear_previous_screenshots: true,
            app_package_name: package_name,
            use_tests_in_packages: ['com.company.package.screenshots'],
            app_apk_path: "app/build/outputs/apk/app-debug.apk",
            tests_apk_path: "app/build/outputs/apk/app-debug-androidTest.apk"
        )
    end

[Kamil Krzyk]

Sure :) No problem!
I hope it will work.