Detox: Detox Android incompatible with RN >= 50

Detox idling resources are not compatible with changes made in RN 50:

onMessage: {"messageId":3,"type":"error","params":{"error":"Wait for [com.wix.detox.espresso.ReactNativeUIModuleIdlingResource] to become idle timed out"}}

Encountered this while testing uses cases in RNN involving reload (By pressing R R)

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State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Reactions: 5
Comments: 24 (11 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Initial native test suite for Android, this should help debugging issues in #608 — committed to wix/Detox by rotemmiz 6 years ago

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FYI, I can work on this full time from Tuesday.

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simonracz on Mar 18, 2018

Status as of June 2018:

Detox Android is stuck back at React Native v0.51, i.e. since December 2017.
Detox iOS works for React Native v0.55 (current as of June, 2018)

References:

https://github.com/wix/detox/blob/master/README.md (June 2018)
https://github.com/wix/detox/commits/master/docs/More.AndroidSupportStatus.md (Jan. 2018)

markhu on Jun 25, 2018

But React Native is already at 0.55 version and Detox doesn’t support Rn 0.52 and up? 😢

henrikra on Apr 23, 2018

Hey folks! Having great fun trying to get Detox to work with latest react-native on Android. (Caveat: I am NOT an Android dev, so new to the whole Gradle build eco-system)

My use case is very limited, so hoping that subtle bugs won’t stop me from using detox.

However, currently can’t even get things to compile after following a combination of the instructions below to add detox.

https://github.com/wix/detox/blob/master/docs/Introduction.Android.md https://github.com/wix/detox/blob/master/docs/More.AndroidSupportStatus.md

React Native: 0.55.2 Detox: 7.3.3

What is the current status of things? Is there a chance of getting this running with latest react-native?

Other example projects I should look at?

If anyone actually cares to dig into this, my WIP spike code is here: https://github.com/agent-0028/react-native-sandbox/tree/adding-detox-for-android

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agent-0028 on Apr 20, 2018

The documentation links to this ticket, and this ticket is closed but the issue is not fixed for RN >=52. Can we get a new ticket or re-open this one?

The documentation indicated it doesn’t work with RN>=50 so that might need to be updated as well.

lalka-workco on May 14, 2018

@simonracz detox 7.3.4 is supporting RN 0.55.3 can you please update the status?

DVLNarayana on Apr 26, 2018

Hey folks! Having a little difficultly configuring this myself:

React Native: 0.54.2 Detox: 7.3.3

Has there been any progress with this compatibility? Any helpful workarounds?

esusslin on Apr 20, 2018

I went over 0.49-stable - 0.50-stable diff, and found a few possible culprits.

Implement lazy discovery for ViewManagers. https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/da30b047037a1b4a97159b22abfd5244ecfaee19

~~Move destroy threads in catalystinstance off the UI thread https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/cf2ef84b16775e0e0eb53410e7e6e4ac66d05d03~~ (Espresso syncs with AsyncTasks by default)

rotemmiz on Mar 18, 2018