Define custom ID for app
By default, every app upload generates a new app_url
value. Accordingly, you also need to update the app
capability in your Appium test scripts to test the latest build of the app.
If you want to use a constant value to specify the application under test and don’t want to modify your test scripts after every app upload, you can define a custom ID for your app. Use the same custom ID every time you upload a new build of the app.
Here is an example cURL
request to upload an Android app with the custom ID defined as FiretvApp :
curl -u "YOUR_USERNAME:YOUR_ACCESS_KEY" \
-X POST "https://api-cloud.browserstack.com/app-automate/upload" \
-F "file=@/path/to/app/file" \
-F "custom_id=FiretvApp"
curl -u "YOUR_USERNAME:YOUR_ACCESS_KEY" \
-X POST "https://api-cloud.browserstack.com/app-automate/upload" \
-F "url=https://www.browserstack.com/app-automate/sample-apps/smart-tv/firetv/ClassicsKotlin.apk" \
-F "custom_id=FiretvApp"
A sample response to the above API request is shown below :
{
"app_url":"bs://f7c874f21852ba57957a3fdc33f47514288c4ba4",
"custom_id":"FiretvApp",
"shareable_id":"exampleuser/FiretvApp"
}
In your Appium test script, simply use the custom_id
value (FiretvApp
in the above example) to set the app
capability to specify the application under test. The test execution will pick the last uploaded build corresponding to that custom ID.
- Other users in your team can test an app uploaded by you. They need to use the shareable_id value to specify the application under test while setting the app capability in their tests.
- The use of
custom ID
orshareable ID
is optional. - The maximum character limit in the
custom_id
parameter is 100 and the characters allowed are a-z, A-Z, 0-9, period(.), underscore(_), and hyphen(-).
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