Bring your own phones to Gradle Managed Devices
summary
Shows how to implement a custom Gradle Managed Device using DADB and Android Gradle Plugin extension points to connect to ADB hosts, install APKs, run am instrument with -w, and parse the proto STD stream into proper XML/HTML reports. Demonstrates leasing devices from an STF device farm via REST, running 100 UI tests (about 2 minutes sequentially) and sharding them across multiple hosts to cut wall time, notes ADB proxy/auth issues patched by modifying connect.js and Credroid limits on Linux.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Gradle managed devices intro
- 2:15Firebase Test Lab overview
- 3:17Custom managed device setup
- 9:32Running tests on devices
- 12:27ADB and test execution
- 17:24Test reports from output
- 19:33Remote devices via TCP
- 20:35Parallel tests with sharding
- 25:08Device farms and broker
- 27:58STF with Gradle integration
- 33:35ADB security issues
- 35:03Demo with Docker and STF
- 36:48Key takeaways
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