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Easy Guide to Integrating and Using UI Automator for Android UI Testing with Kotlin and AndroidX

Paresh Krishna Sharma
4 min readAug 13, 2023

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Android UI Automator

Are you a developer who wants to ensure your Android apps work smoothly together? Or do you simply want to improve your app’s user experience? One way to achieve this is through UI testing, where you can simulate user interactions and check if everything functions as expected. In this article, we’ll dive into integrating and using UI Automator, a powerful testing framework, to perform UI tests between two Android apps. Don’t worry if you’re not an expert —we’ll explain everything in simple human language!

What is UI Automator?

UI Automator is a testing framework provided by Google that allows you to automate interactions with the user interface of Android applications. It’s particularly useful for testing scenarios that involve interactions between multiple apps. In our case, we’ll be using it to test interactions between two Android apps.

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Why Use Kotlin and AndroidX?

Kotlin is a modern programming language for Android development that’s concise and expressive. AndroidX is a package of libraries that…

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Paresh Krishna Sharma
Paresh Krishna Sharma

Written by Paresh Krishna Sharma

Unleashing the Power of Code, Data, and Creativity ✨ | Software Engineer at Microsoft | LinkedIn : www.linkedin.com/in/itsparesh

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