Parse android's uiautomator generated XML, draw yellow boxes onto the corresponding image's leaf elements. Sample inputs are in tests/data and sample outputs are in annotated/. This is a school project, a little warmup for my software engineering class. So please do not use in production!
Input: Array of paths, each path corresponds to a xml file to parse and a png file to draw onto. See tests/data for example pairs.
Output: Create an annotated/ directory in the current directory consisting of annotated pngs.
# Clone repo
pip install .
xlh [file_path1] [file_path2] ...# In cloned repo
xlh tests/data/com.apalon.ringtones tests/data/com.dropbox.android tests/data/com.giphy.messenger-2You could also directly execute the highlighter script:
# Clone repo, and make sure you have Pillow
cd xml_leaf_highlighter
python3 main.py [file_path1] [file_path2]xlh is just a wrapper around xml_leaf_highlighter/main.py.
How this project should be realistically approached:
- Utilize a xml parsing and drawing library
- Profit. I wanted to practice my codesmanship a bit. So, although I don't have enough time to research and write my own png manipulation library (I tried looking into ), I did write a regex to parse out the xml leaf nodes. Note that in the programming community, parsing html/xml with regex in production is a heresy to many, and, borderline satanic to some. I used python because I don't use it enough, it's slowly becoming my favorite language.
python >= 3.8.10 works perfectly
Run python tests with python3 -m unittest