How to control your Android/iOS device with python?

Question

I am looking to control my mobile devices that are plugged into MAC/PC via usb.

Specifically, I want to turn "Airplane Mode" on and off using just python codes.

My bad solution to control the mobile device was...

using Selenium and TeamViewer web mode.

But, as you can see, the device goes to 'offline' when I turn on the airplane mode.

Any idea?

Answer 1

You can do it with AndroidViewClient/culebra.

Here is an example you can base your script on (autogenerated by culebra):

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Copyright (C) 2013-2018  Diego Torres Milano
Created on 2018-08-09 by Culebra v15.4.0
                      __    __    __    __
                     /  \  /  \  /  \  /  \ 
____________________/  __\/  __\/  __\/  __\_____________________________
___________________/  /__/  /__/  /__/  /________________________________
                   | / \   / \   / \   / \   \___
                   |/   \_/   \_/   \_/   \    o \ 
                                           \_____/--<
@author: Diego Torres Milano
@author: Jennifer E. Swofford (ascii art snake)
"""


import re
import sys
import os


import unittest

from com.dtmilano.android.viewclient import ViewClient, CulebraTestCase

TAG = 'CULEBRA'


class CulebraTests(CulebraTestCase):

    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls):
        cls.kwargs1 = {'ignoreversioncheck': False, 'verbose': False, 'ignoresecuredevice': False}
        cls.kwargs2 = {'forceviewserveruse': False, 'useuiautomatorhelper': False, 'ignoreuiautomatorkilled': True, 'autodump': False, 'debug': {}, 'startviewserver': True, 'compresseddump': True}
        cls.options = {'start-activity': None, 'concertina': False, 'device-art': None, 'use-jar': False, 'multi-device': False, 'unit-test-class': True, 'save-screenshot': None, 'use-dictionary': False, 'glare': False, 'dictionary-keys-from': 'id', 'scale': 0.5, 'find-views-with-content-description': True, 'window': -1, 'orientation-locked': None, 'concertina-config': None, 'save-view-screenshots': None, 'find-views-by-id': True, 'log-actions': False, 'use-regexps': False, 'null-back-end': False, 'auto-regexps': None, 'do-not-verify-screen-dump': True, 'verbose-comments': False, 'gui': True, 'find-views-with-text': True, 'prepend-to-sys-path': False, 'install-apk': None, 'drop-shadow': False, 'output': 'aonoff.py', 'unit-test-method': None, 'interactive': False}
        cls.sleep = 5

    def setUp(self):
        super(CulebraTests, self).setUp()

    def tearDown(self):
        super(CulebraTests, self).tearDown()

    def preconditions(self):
        if not super(CulebraTests, self).preconditions():
            return False
        return True

    def testSomething(self):
        if not self.preconditions():
            self.fail('Preconditions failed')

        _s = CulebraTests.sleep
        _v = CulebraTests.verbose

        self.vc.dump(window=-1)
        self.vc.uiDevice.openQuickSettings()
        self.vc.sleep(_s)
        self.vc.dump(window=-1)
        self.vc.findViewWithContentDescriptionOrRaise(u'''Airplane mode''').touch()
        self.vc.sleep(_s)
        self.vc.dump(window=-1)
        self.device.press('KEYCODE_BACK')
        self.device.press('KEYCODE_BACK')

        print >> sys.stderr, 'Now Airplane mode is ON, switching it back to OFF'
        self.vc.sleep(5)

        self.vc.uiDevice.openQuickSettings()
        self.vc.sleep(_s)
        self.vc.dump(window=-1)
        self.vc.findViewWithContentDescriptionOrRaise(u'''Airplane mode''').touch()
        self.vc.sleep(_s)
        self.vc.dump(window=-1)
        self.device.press('KEYCODE_BACK')
        self.device.press('KEYCODE_BACK')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    CulebraTests.main()