feat: Add mobile wrappers for media-projection-based screen recording

lib/android-helpers.js

@@ -571,15 +571,24 @@ helpers.pushSettingsApp = async function pushSettingsApp (adb, throwError = fals
                 'will raise an error if you try to use them.');
   }
 
-  // Reinstall will stop the settings helper process anyway, so
+  // Reinstall would stop the settings helper process anyway, so
   // there is no need to continue if the application is still running
   if (await adb.processExists(SETTINGS_HELPER_PKG_ID)) {
     logger.debug(`${SETTINGS_HELPER_PKG_ID} is already running. ` +
       `There is no need to reset its permissions.`);
     return;
   }
 
-  if (await adb.getApiLevel() <= 23) { // Android 6- devices should have granted permissions
+  const apiLevel = await adb.getApiLevel();
+  if (apiLevel >= 29) {
+    // https://github.com/appium/io.appium.settings#internal-audio--video-recording
+    try {
+      await adb.shell(['appops', 'set', SETTINGS_HELPER_PKG_ID, 'PROJECT_MEDIA', 'allow']);
+    } catch (err) {
+      logger.debug(err);
+    }
+  }
+  if (apiLevel <= 23) { // Android 6- devices should have granted permissions
     // https://github.com/appium/appium/pull/11640#issuecomment-438260477
     const perms = ['SET_ANIMATION_SCALE', 'CHANGE_CONFIGURATION', 'ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION'];
     logger.info(`Granting permissions ${perms} to '${SETTINGS_HELPER_PKG_ID}'`);

lib/commands/execute.js

@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ extensions.executeMobile = async function executeMobile (mobileCommand, opts = {
     unlock: 'mobileUnlock',
 
     refreshGpsCache: 'mobileRefreshGpsCache',
+
+    startMediaProjectionRecording: 'mobileStartMediaProjectionRecording',
+    isMediaProjectionRecordingRunning: 'mobileIsMediaProjectionRecordingRunning',
+    stopMediaProjectionRecording: 'mobileStopMediaProjectionRecording',
   };
 
   if (!_.has(mobileCommandsMapping, mobileCommand)) {

lib/commands/index.js

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import appManagementCmds from './app-management';
 import intentCmds from './intent';
 import systemBarsCmds from './system-bars';
 import logCmds from './log';
+import mediaProjectionCmds from './media-projection';
 
 
 let commands = {};
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ Object.assign(
   appManagementCmds,
   fileActionsCmds,
   logCmds,
+  mediaProjectionCmds,
   // add other command types here
 );
 

lib/commands/media-projection.js

@@ -0,0 +1,270 @@
+import _ from 'lodash';
+import { waitForCondition } from 'asyncbox';
+import { util, fs, net, tempDir } from 'appium/support';
+import path from 'path';
+import B from 'bluebird';
+import { SETTINGS_HELPER_PKG_ID } from '../android-helpers';
+
+
+const commands = {};
+
+// https://github.com/appium/io.appium.settings#internal-audio--video-recording
+const DEFAULT_EXT = '.mp4';
+const RECORDING_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_MS = 3 * 1000;
+const RECORDING_STOP_TIMEOUT_MS = 3 * 1000;
+const MIN_API_LEVEL = 29;
+const RECORDING_SERVICE_NAME = `${SETTINGS_HELPER_PKG_ID}/.recorder.RecorderService`;
+const RECORDING_ACTIVITY_NAME = `${SETTINGS_HELPER_PKG_ID}/io.appium.settings.Settings`;
+const RECORDING_ACTION_START = `${SETTINGS_HELPER_PKG_ID}.recording.ACTION_START`;
+const RECORDING_ACTION_STOP = `${SETTINGS_HELPER_PKG_ID}.recording.ACTION_STOP`;
+const RECORDINGS_ROOT = `/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/${SETTINGS_HELPER_PKG_ID}/files`;
+
+
+async function uploadRecordedMedia (localFile, remotePath = null, uploadOptions = {}) {
+  if (_.isEmpty(remotePath)) {
+    return (await util.toInMemoryBase64(localFile)).toString();
+  }
+
+  const {user, pass, method, headers, fileFieldName, formFields} = uploadOptions;
+  const options = {
+    method: method || 'PUT',
+    headers,
+    fileFieldName,
+    formFields,
+  };
+  if (user && pass) {
+    options.auth = {user, pass};
+  }
+  await net.uploadFile(localFile, remotePath, options);
+  return '';
+}
+
+async function verifyMediaProjectionRecordingIsSupported (adb) {
+  const apiLevel = await adb.getApiLevel();
+  if (apiLevel < MIN_API_LEVEL) {
+    throw new Error(`Media projection-based recording is not available on API Level ${apiLevel}. ` +
+      `Minimum required API Level is ${MIN_API_LEVEL}.`);
+  }
+}
+
+
+class MediaProjectionRecorder {
+  constructor (adb) {
+    this.adb = adb;
+  }
+
+  async isRunning () {
+    const stdout = await this.adb.shell(['dumpsys', 'activity', 'services']);
+    return stdout.includes(RECORDING_SERVICE_NAME);
+  }
+
+  async start (opts = {}) {
+    if (await this.isRunning()) {
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    await this.cleanup();
+    const {
+      filename,
+      maxDurationSec,
+      priority,
+      resolution,
+    } = opts;
+    const args = [
+      'am', 'start',
+      '-n', RECORDING_ACTIVITY_NAME,
+      '-a', RECORDING_ACTION_START,
+    ];
+    if (filename) {
+      args.push(
+        '--es', 'filename',
+        _.toLower(filename).endsWith(DEFAULT_EXT) ? filename : `${filename}${DEFAULT_EXT}`
+      );
+    }
+    if (maxDurationSec) {
+      args.push('--es', 'max_duration_sec', `${maxDurationSec}`);
+    }
+    if (priority) {
+      args.push('--es', 'priority', priority);
+    }
+    if (resolution) {
+      args.push('--es', 'resolution', resolution);
+    }
+    await this.adb.shell(args);
+    await new B((resolve, reject) => {
+      setTimeout(async () => {
+        if (!await this.isRunning()) {
+          return reject(new Error(
+            `The media projection recording is not running after ${RECORDING_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_MS}ms. ` +
+            `Please check the logcat output for more details.`
+          ));
+        }
+        resolve();
+      }, RECORDING_STARTUP_TIMEOUT_MS);
+    });
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  async cleanup () {
+    await this.adb.shell([`rm -f ${RECORDINGS_ROOT}/*`]);
+  }
+
+  async pullRecent () {
+    const recordings = await this.adb.ls(RECORDINGS_ROOT, ['-tr']);
+    if (_.isEmpty(recordings)) {
+      return null;
+    }
+
+    const dstPath = path.join(await tempDir.openDir(), recordings[0]);
+    await this.adb.pull(`${RECORDINGS_ROOT}/${recordings[0]}`, dstPath);
+    return dstPath;
+  }
+
+  async stop () {
+    if (!await this.isRunning()) {
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    await this.adb.shell([
+      'am', 'start',
+      '-n', RECORDING_ACTIVITY_NAME,
+      '-a', RECORDING_ACTION_STOP,
+    ]);
+    try {
+      await waitForCondition(async () => !(await this.isRunning()), {
+        waitMs: RECORDING_STOP_TIMEOUT_MS,
+        intervalMs: 500,
+      });
+    } catch (e) {
+      throw new Error(
+        `The current media projection recording cannot stop within ${RECORDING_STOP_TIMEOUT_MS}ms timeout`
+      );
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * @typedef {Object} StartRecordingOptions
+ *
+ * @property {string?} resolution Maximum supported resolution on-device (Detected
+ * automatically by the app itself), which usually equals to Full HD 1920x1080 on most
+ * phones however you can change it to following supported resolutions
+ * as well: "1920x1080", "1280x720", "720x480", "320x240", "176x144".
+ * @property {number?} maxDurationSec [900] Default value: 900 seconds which means
+ * maximum allowed duration is 15 minute, you can increase it if your test takes
+ * longer than that.
+ * @property {string?} priority [high] Means recording thread priority is maximum
+ * however if you face performance drops during testing with recording enabled, you
+ * can reduce recording priority to "normal" or "low".
+ * @property {string?} filename You can type recording video file name as you want,
+ * but recording currently supports only "mp4" format so your filename must end with ".mp4".
+ * An invalid file name will fail to start the recording.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Record the display of a real devices running Android 10 (API level 29) and higher.
+ * The screen activity is recorded to a MPEG-4 file. Audio is also recorded by default
+ * (only for apps that allow it in their manifests).
+ * If another recording has been already started then the command will exit silently.
+ * The previously recorded video file is deleted when a new recording session is started.
+ * Recording continues on driver session deletion if not stopped explicitly until the
+ * timeout happens.
+ *
+ * @param {?StartRecordingOptions} options Available options.
+ * @returns {boolean} True if a new recording has successfully started.
+ * @throws {Error} If recording has failed to start or is not supported on the device under test.
+ */
+commands.mobileStartMediaProjectionRecording = async function mobileStartMediaProjectionRecording (options = {}) {
+  await verifyMediaProjectionRecordingIsSupported(this.adb);
+
+  const {resolution, priority, maxDurationSec, filename} = options;
+  const recorder = new MediaProjectionRecorder(this.adb);
+  const didStart = await recorder.start({
+    resolution,
+    priority,
+    maxDurationSec,
+    filename: filename || util.uuidV4(),
+  });
+  if (didStart) {
+    this.log.info('A new media projection recording has been successfully started');
+  } else {
+    this.log.info('Another media projection recording is already in progress. There is nothing to start');
+  }
+  return didStart;
+};
+
+/**
+ * Checks if a media projection-based recording is currently running.
+ *
+ * @returns {boolean} True if a recording is in progress.
+ * @throws {Error} If a recording is not supported on the device under test.
+ */
+commands.mobileIsMediaProjectionRecordingRunning = async function mobileIsMediaProjectionRecordingRunning () {
+  await verifyMediaProjectionRecordingIsSupported(this.adb);
+
+  const recorder = new MediaProjectionRecorder(this.adb);
+  return await recorder.isRunning();
+};
+
+/**
+ * @typedef {Object} StopRecordingOptions
+ *
+ * @property {string?} remotePath The path to the remote location, where the resulting video should be uploaded.
+ * The following protocols are supported: http/https, ftp.
+ * Null or empty string value (the default setting) means the content of resulting
+ * file should be encoded as Base64 and passed as the endpoont response value.
+ * An exception will be thrown if the generated media file is too big to
+ * fit into the available process memory.
+ * @property {string?} user The name of the user for the remote authentication.
+ * @property {string?} pass The password for the remote authentication.
+ * @property {string?} method The http multipart upload method name. The 'PUT' one is used by default.
+ * @property {Object?} headers Additional headers mapping for multipart http(s) uploads
+ * @property {string?} fileFieldName [file] The name of the form field, where the file content BLOB should be stored for
+ * http(s) uploads
+ * @property {Object|Array<Pair>?} formFields Additional form fields for multipart http(s) uploads
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Stop a media projection-based recording.
+ * If no recording has been started before then an error is thrown.
+ * If the recording has been already finished before this API has been called
+ * then the most recent recorded file is returned.
+ *
+ * @param {?StopRecordingOptions} options Available options.
+ * @returns {string} Base64-encoded content of the recorded media file if 'remotePath'
+ * parameter is falsy or an empty string.
+ * @throws {Error} If there was an error while stopping a recording,
+ * fetching the content of the remote media file,
+ * or if a recording is not supported on the device under test.
+ */
+commands.mobileStopMediaProjectionRecording = async function mobileStopMediaProjectionRecording (options = {}) {
+  await verifyMediaProjectionRecordingIsSupported(this.adb);
+
+  const recorder = new MediaProjectionRecorder(this.adb);
+  if (await recorder.stop()) {
+    this.log.info('Successfully stopped a media projection recording. Pulling the recorded media');
+  } else {
+    this.log.info('Media projection recording is not running. There is nothing to stop');
+  }
+  const recentRecordingPath = await recorder.pullRecent();
+  if (!recentRecordingPath) {
+    throw new Error(`No recent media projection recording have been found. Did you start any?`);
+  }
+
+  const {remotePath} = options;
+  if (_.isEmpty(remotePath)) {
+    const {size} = await fs.stat(recentRecordingPath);
+    this.log.debug(`The size of the resulting media projection recording is ${util.toReadableSizeString(size)}`);
+  }
+  try {
+    return await uploadRecordedMedia(recentRecordingPath, remotePath, options);
+  } finally {
+    await fs.rimraf(path.dirname(recentRecordingPath));
+  }
+};
+
+
+export { commands };
+export default commands;

package.json

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
     "asyncbox": "^2.8.0",
     "axios": "^0.x",
     "bluebird": "^3.4.7",
-    "io.appium.settings": "^4.0.0",
+    "io.appium.settings": "^4.1.0",
     "jimp": "^0.x",
     "lodash": "^4.17.4",
     "lru-cache": "^7.3.0",