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UiAutomator findObject is throwing IllegalStateException: UiAutomation not connected!

See original GitHub issue

Getting below Exception for every consecutive execution

java.lang.IllegalStateException: UiAutomation not connected!
at android.app.UiAutomation.throwIfNotConnectedLocked(UiAutomation.java:971)
at android.app.UiAutomation.waitForIdle(UiAutomation.java:577)
at android.support.test.uiautomator.UiAutomatorBridge.waitForIdle(UiAutomatorBridge.java:112)
at android.support.test.uiautomator.UiDevice.waitForIdle(UiDevice.java:639)
at android.support.test.uiautomator.UiDevice.waitForIdle(UiDevice.java:629)
at android.support.test.uiautomator.UiDevice.getWindowRoots(UiDevice.java:1074)
at android.support.test.uiautomator.UiDevice.findObject(UiDevice.java:164)

observed throwing above exception immediately after executing below statement in logcat

W WindowManager: Attempted to remove non-existing token: android.os.Binder@2728fc2

Tested on API Level: 19, 21, 23 emulators, issue also replicating in real device Uiautomator Version: com.android.support.test.uiautomator:uiautomator-v18:2.1.2

Please let me know if you need any other information.

Issue Analytics

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Created 7 years ago
Reactions:8
Comments:26 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

9reactions

bootstraponlinecommented, Apr 19, 2016

Why is there no way for UiAutomation to automatically reconnect on disconnect?

8reactions

snijsurecommented, Dec 19, 2017

I am also getting same issue, when running robo tests on Firebase Cloud test infrastructure.

Fatal Exception: java.lang.IllegalStateException: UiAutomation not connected!
       at android.app.UiAutomation.throwIfNotConnectedLocked(UiAutomation.java:1034)
       at android.app.UiAutomation.disconnect(UiAutomation.java:275)
       at android.app.Instrumentation.finish(Instrumentation.java:210)
       at android.support.test.runner.MonitoringInstrumentation.finish(MonitoringInstrumentation.java:351)
       at android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner.finish(AndroidJUnitRunner.java:405)
       at android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner.onStart(AndroidJUnitRunner.java:394)
       at android.app.Instrumentation$InstrumentationThread.run(Instrumentation.java:1932)

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