Android - openURL is broken

[stevechun]

Android - openURL is broken

Detox, Node, Device, Xcode and macOS Versions

• Detox: 9.0.1
• React Native: 0.55.3
• Node: 9.3.0
• Java: 1.8.0_172
• Device: Android Emulator
• Xcode: 9.4.1
• macOS: 10.13.6 High Sierra

Description

When device.openUrl is used to open the app with deeplink, there are 2 issues.

1. Error triggered with device.openUrl is used after device.launch due to openUrl not being triggered correctly (The deeplink is not triggered and test fails).

2. When using device.openUrl to open the app with deeplink, the following error gets triggered even the deeplink is opened properly. This is a known issue on

Error: Could not launch intent Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=scheme://deeplink/url flg=0x10000000 cmp=com.package.app/.MainActivity } within 45 seconds. Perhaps the main thread has not gone idle within a reasonable amount of time? There could be an animation or something constantly repainting the screen. Or the activity is doing network calls on creation? See the threaddump logs. For your reference the last time the event queue was idle before your activity launch request was 1523458140008 and now the last time the queue went idle was: 1523458185572. If these numbers are the same your activity might be hogging the event queue.

Analysis

For the issue 1, device.sendToHome() is required to be called before calling device.openUrl to make it work. We can probably make this to be a mandatory action for the openUrl func?

For the issue 2, looks like it is an issue related to the espresso library dependency. The workaround in the old issue fixes the problem.

I can create a PR if this is something that we want to have as a workaround in place.

[noomorph]

@stevechun, thanks for your thorough investigation. I think it makes sense.
Could you elaborate on espresso library dependency part, what did you mean?

[stevechun]

@noomorph It was related to the update on the espresso library as it was working fine on the old version AFAIR. But didn't get a chance to go deeper.

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[stale]

The issue has been closed for inactivity.

[robertofrontado]

Sadly this is still an issue

@stevechun did you manage a workaround?

Edited: This worked for me

[avanderberg]

I can use openURL successfully since https://github.com/wix/Detox/releases/tag/14.9.0