How to disable animations in code when running Espresso tests

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Dan J picture Dan J · Apr 28, 2015 · Viewed 14.1k times · Source

Has anybody managed to disable animations through code when running Espresso tests? I've been trying to follow the instructions in this webpage (linked to from here):
https://code.google.com/p/android-test-kit/wiki/DisablingAnimations

Unfortunately it does not appear to be working, as I keep seeing this permissions error:

04-27 15:48:28.694      303-342/system_process W/PackageManager﹕ Not granting permission android.permission.SET_ANIMATION_SCALE to package com.cookbrite.dev (protectionLevel=50 flags=0x18be46)

I was really hoping to avoid reconfiguring my device/emulators. We frequently run individual tests locally and it will annoy me if I have to keep toggling settings.

I noticed some other developers complaining that this doesn't work, so I might not be alone:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/android-test-kit-discuss/TCil7kMQRTM/QK1qCjzM6KQJ

Answer

denys picture denys · Jan 14, 2017

I'm executing these three commands for each animation type and they are working for me:

adb shell settings put global window_animation_scale 0.0
adb shell settings put global transition_animation_scale 0.0
adb shell settings put global animator_duration_scale 0.0

More information here - prepare android emulator for UI test automation.

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