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 "id": "knifelemon-droidline--test-your-app-on-real-phones",
 "repo": "KnifeLemon/Droidline",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/KnifeLemon/Droidline",
 "repo_slug": "knifelemon-droidline",
 "title": "Test your Android app on real phones from a script",
 "page_title": "How to test your Android app on real phones from a script with Droidline",
 "summary": "Write a Python or Node.js test that taps, types, and checks text on a real phone.",
 "who": "A mobile developer or QA engineer who needs to check a login or other flow on real hardware, without setting up developer options or USB debugging on the phone.",
 "problem": "Emulators miss real device behavior, and wiring up ADB and USB debugging for each test phone is slow to set up and fragile to maintain.",
 "outcome": "A script that launches your app, fills in a field, taps a button, and reads back a greeting from the screen, running against a phone paired over Wi-Fi.",
 "steps": [
  "Run `droidline serve` on your PC and leave it running.",
  "Install droidline-agent.apk on the phone, turn on the accessibility service, the Droidline keyboard, notifications and unrestricted battery use, then run `droidline pair` and scan the QR code in the app's Pair tab.",
  "Install the client with `pip install droidline` or `npm install droidline`.",
  "Write a script that calls connect(), launch(), input(), touch() and get_text() against your app's package name and element ids.",
  "Run the script and check the printed text matches what your app should show."
 ],
 "agent_prompt": "Using the Droidline repo at https://github.com/KnifeLemon/Droidline, write a Python script that connects to the paired phone, launches <app package name>, enters <test value> into the field with id <field id>, taps <button text>, and prints the text of the element with id <result id>. Verify the printed text equals <expected text> and report pass or fail.",
 "agents": [
  "any"
 ],
 "difficulty": "Intermediate",
 "time": "1 hour",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "Droidline only uses permissions an ordinary app can get, so it cannot unlock a PIN, pattern or password lock screen, and games or custom-drawn apps may expose no elements to target.",
 "category": "Software and DevOps",
 "tags": [
  "Software and DevOps"
 ],
 "lang": "go",
 "requirements": [
  "A PC running Windows, macOS, or Linux",
  "An Android phone running Android 9 or later",
  "The droidline archive for your system from the Releases page",
  "droidline-agent.apk from the same release page, installed on the phone",
  "Python 3.9+ or Node.js 18+ if you want to script, or an MCP-capable agent app"
 ],
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