Resources$NotFoundException Resource is not a Drawable

Appium v1.12.0 I’m not very familiar with Appium, this is my first crack at this.

I get the following exception when I try to start an Appium session with espresso. The crash is happening in the onCreate method of all my activities (I’ve tried starting with different activities) via androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity.onCreate(AppCompatActivity.java:71). This crash does not happen when I change the driver to UiAutomator2, run the app on its own, or run my Espresso test suite. The crash only occurs when I run through Appium via the Espresso driver.

My config JSON:

{
  "deviceName": "P500",
  "platformName": "Android",
  "platformVersion": 21,
  "automationName": "Espresso",
  "app": "C:\\builds\\redacted-debug.apk",
  "appPackage": "com.redacted.debug",
  "udid": "123456789",
  "appActivity": "com.redacted.activity.SplashActivity",
  "noReset": true,
  "skipUnlock": true
}

Exception Stack trace:

04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.redacted.debug/com.redacted.activity.SetupActivity}: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource "com.redacted.debug:dimen/cockpit_section_status_max_width" (7f070059)  is not a Drawable (color or path): TypedValue{t=0x5/d=0x25801 a=2 r=0x7f070059}
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2325)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2387)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:151)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1303)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5257)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:955)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:750)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime: Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource "com.redacted.debug:dimen/cockpit_section_status_max_width" (7f070059)  is not a Drawable (color or path): TypedValue{t=0x5/d=0x25801 a=2 r=0x7f070059}
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawableForCookie(Resources.java:2441)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java:2381)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at android.content.res.Resources.getDrawable(Resources.java:787)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at android.content.Context.getDrawable(Context.java:403)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at androidx.core.content.ContextCompat.getDrawable(ContextCompat.java:463)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatDrawableManager.getDrawable(AppCompatDrawableManager.java:203)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatDrawableManager.getDrawable(AppCompatDrawableManager.java:191)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatDrawableManager.checkVectorDrawableSetup(AppCompatDrawableManager.java:753)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatDrawableManager.getDrawable(AppCompatDrawableManager.java:196)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at androidx.appcompat.widget.TintTypedArray.getDrawableIfKnown(TintTypedArray.java:86)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatDelegateImpl.<init>(AppCompatDelegateImpl.java:260)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatDelegate.create(AppCompatDelegate.java:182)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity.getDelegate(AppCompatActivity.java:520)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity.onCreate(AppCompatActivity.java:71)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at com.redacted.activity.SetupActivity.onCreate(SetupActivity.java:125)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:6013)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1106)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at androidx.test.runner.MonitoringInstrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(MonitoringInstrumentation.java:674)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2278)
04-26 22:29:07.231 31232 31232 E AndroidRuntime:       ... 10 more

Trying with Appium 1.13.0 gives me a different error:

[debug] [MJSONWP] Encountered internal error running command: Error: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: starting instrumentation ComponentInfo{io.appium.espressoserver.test/androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner} from pid=13136, uid=13136 not allowed because package io.appium.espressoserver.test does not have a signature matching the target com.redacted.debug

[TarCV]

I’ve managed to fix it for our app by changing this driver:

• changed all SDK versions in both build.gradle and server manifest to match versions in AUT
• disabled transitive dependencies for espresso-contrib (I guess these dependencies are main cause for this issue)
• excluded androidx.test.espresso group from transitive dependencies of espresso-web

Overall I think Android build process is too complex to have espresso server setup as simple as it is now. I’d be much more confident in the server if it had most android dependencies compileOnly and its manifest were generated based on AUT manifest.

[sfkir]

But crash doesn’t happen when I run Espresso tests. This only happen when I run my Appium tests with Espresso driver.