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Android Studio provides several tools needed in Greenspector Studio, as:

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• Select More actions and SDK Manager

• Choose SDK Tools and uncheck Hide Obsolete Packages

• Search for Android SDK Tools (Obsolete) 26.1.1 and confirm installation

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Environment variables

Android Studio is now installed on computer. However, it’s not known by OS as environment variables: tools are launchable only in their installation folder, which isn’t practical for Greenspector Studio uses.

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• Check for presence of aapt in folder build-tools/3435.0.0

• Check for presence of adb in folder platform-tools

• Check for presence of uiautomatorviewer in folder tools/bin

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%ANDROID_HOME%\build-tools\3435.0.0
%ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools
%JAVA_HOME%\bin

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You should see the following result:

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UIAutomatorViewer

We didn’t had directly path to UiAutomatorViewer. Indeed, this tools need a precise Java version to run. To avoid this extra installation, we will link it to integrated java installation of Android Studio via a command.

Method 1 : Get prepared file

In this method, simply get the prepared .bat file to run UiAutomatorViewer with the right Java location.

• Download and launch uiautomatorviewer.bat

UIAutomatorViewer windows should appear.

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Method 2 : Create your own script

• Open a new terminal in Start Menu, by searching command prompt. You can also access to command prompt by typing cmd in Run (Windows+R)

• Try the following command:

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Check your java version with the following command:

java -version

Method 1: Launch UIAutomatorViewer without installing Java 1.8

Use the following command to launch UIAutomatorViewer:

java -Xmx1600M -Dcom.android.uiautomator.bindir="%ANDROID_HOME%\tools" -cp "%ANDROID_HOME%\tools\lib\x86_64\swt.jar";"%ANDROID_HOME%\tools\lib\*" com.android.uiautomator.UiAutomatorViewer

UiAutomatorViewer should be able to start and appears. This command is not easy to use neither to remember so we will create a shortcut.

• In Start Menu, open Notepad

• Copy the previous command line inside the file

• Click on File/Save As... and choose a location

• Change file name with uiautomatorviewer.bat: extension format .bat is important

• Try to open your new file and verify UiAutomatorViewer is correctly working

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Method 2: Launch UIAutomatorViewer with Java 1.8

• Install Java 1.8 by getting it on the Oracle website. You need to create an account.

• Launch UIAutomatorViewer with the following command:

uiautomatorviewer.bat

The following program appears:

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