Android 10, by and large, act the same way with Appium as any previous version. There is one important modification to be cognizant of from an automation perspective, yet. If the app you & # x27; re testing has a target SDK version of less than 23 (Android 6.0), then when you launch it on Android 10, you might see a fancy new permit interstitial before your app launches. Something like this:

Presumably this is because of Android 10 & # x27; s new, more fine-grained app permissions model. Because these older apps haven & # x27; t be coded with an eye to the new permissions poser, Android needs to pop up this annoying interstitial in order to make certain everything & # x27; s cool, permissions-wise. This is a svelte botheration for user, with a outstanding gain in terms of concealment. However, it can be desolate for automation if your codification isn & # x27; t expecting it. You have three options for what to do about this.

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Option 1: Automate the Permissions View

The first choice is the big hammer: you could just use Appium to automate this dialog by tapping the & quot; Continue & quot; button. But this means you have to throw a conditional in your examination codification for Android 10, and potentially waste a clump of time await for a & quot; Continue & quot; button that doesn & # x27; t subsist on variation of Android less than 10. So I don & # x27; t recommend it.

Option 2: Update your app & # x27; s targetSdkVersion

Every Android app can delimitate 3 different Android SDK versions. Somewhat confusingly, they are:

• minSdkVersion: This is the minimum variation of Android your app will launch on.
• compileSdkVersion: This is the version of Android that your app will be make with, which determines which APIs your codification has access to as you are compiling it. It also set which compilation errors and warnings will be log.
• targetSdkVersion: This is kind of a weird one. By targeting a sure SDK, you are telling Android which SDK you get essay, so Android is free to apply system-wide behavior change to your app. For example, imagine that your app has a targetSdkVersion of 21 -- -in that case, the Android OS might settle that your app doesn & # x27; t back Dark Mode, even though Dark Mode is available more generally on the device which is running your app. Essentially, it clue Android into which scheme behaviors your app is designed to support.

If you feature access to your app & # x27; s source codification, or can convince your developers to do this, you could always update your app & # x27; s targetSdkVersion to 29 (the SDK version of Android 10), and this will do aside with the interstitial. Though of course you & # x27; ll need to participate in the new permissions system, and that might involve some code update throughout the app.

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Option 3: Use autoGrantPermissions

The final, and in my opinion most straightforward, option is to use the autoGrantPermissions capableness. If you include this capability and set it to true, Appium will essay to automatically grant your app all permissions from the system perspective, so that when it comes clip to launch your app, Android already thinks that all permissions have been quest and accepted.

Using this capability is nice because you might require it already (as a way to do away with dialogs popping up throughout the execution of your test), but also because you don & # x27; t need to update the app in order to use it. Of course, you should still bug your developers to update the mark SDK version for your app so that it stays current!

Appium 1.15 is the most current release that supports Android 10, so make sure you download it whenever you need to automatize apps on this Android program. As of the time of writing, Appium 1.15 is presently in the Release Candidate stage, and should be loosely available soon!

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