How to programmatically switch between ios and android enhanced driver

[jerimiah797]

When I write appium tests, it looks like I can only declare driver as either an EnhancedAndroidDriver type, or an EnhancedIOSDriver type. I want to run a simple test in a single file that will run on both platforms, but it seems I must choose either android or ios for that file to run on. How do I avoid duplicating all my test files? I am using react native and my app is basically identical on both platforms. I have done something similar with the regular AppiumDriver.

Any suggestions to programmatically switch which 'EnhancedIOS/AndroidDriver' the variable driver refers to in Java??

With the regular AppiumDriver, I can do this:

private static AppiumDriver<MobileElement> driver;

public AppiumDriver<MobileElement> getDriver() throws IOException {
    if (PLATFORM_NAME.equals("Android")) {
       driver = new AndroidDriver<MobileElement>(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);
    } else if (PLATFORM_NAME.equals("iOS")) {
       driver = new IOSDriver<MobileElement>(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);
    }
    return driver;
}

But it seems impossible to take this approach with the Enhanced drivers because they don't share a common type. Please advise!

[jerimiah797]

I can kind of get it to seem like it might work if I declare the driver as an AppiumDriver, but then the driver.label screenshot capability breaks, because 'label' isn't part of AppiumDriver.

public AppiumDriver<MobileElement> driver;

if(true) {
            driver = Factory.createAndroidDriver(new URL("http://localhost:4723/wd/hub"), caps);
        } else {
            driver = Factory.createIOSDriver(new URL("http://localhost:4723/wd/hub"), caps);
        }
driver.label("Stopping App");

---> Error: Cannot resolve method 'label' in 'AppiumDriver'

But this doesn't actually work at all because App Center wants the driver declared like this:
public EnhancedAndroidDriver<MobileElement> driver; or this:
public EnhancedIOSDriver<MobileElement> driver;

and then of course the driver is supposed to be instantiated later like this:
EnhancedAndroidDriver<MobileElement> driver = Factory.createAndroidDriver(new URL("http://localhost:4723/wd/hub"), caps);
or this:
EnhancedIOSDriver<MobileElement> driver = Factory.createIOSDriver(new URL("http://localhost:4723/wd/hub"), caps);

But in Java, these three variables can not be the same, despite sharing the same name:

    public AppiumDriver<MobileElement> driver;
    public EnhancedAndroidDriver<MobileElement> driver;
    public EnhancedIOSDriver<MobileElement> driver;

Whichever one is declared first is used; the others are ignored. The variable driver can never be a variable that can be any of type enhancedAndroidDriver , enhancedIOSDriver or AppiumDriver type as far as I understand the Java language -- which I admit is limited. Please, I'd love to know what I'm doing wrong.

[albert17]

@jerimiah797 Did you find a solution for this?

[jerimiah797]

Sorry for the delay, @albert17 . I did find a solution. I had to create an interface in Java that let me abstract each call in the driver.. I can post some code here if you are interested.. it's not in a public repo at the moment.