DeviceAPI is a collection of ruby gems that make working with physical devices easy and consistent. DeviceAPI provides common utilities such as device detection and identification, and useful helpers for installing applications and identifying problems with devices.
Status: Supported. Not in active Development.
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MIT
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DeviceAPI is a collection of ruby gems that make working with physical devices easy and consistent. DeviceAPI provides common utilities such as device detection and identification, and useful helpers for installing applications and identifying problems with devices.
We use DeviceAPI heavily to leverage devices in Hive CI. It's also used by our test developers in their test code. It's our interface to the devices we test against and is where we put all common code for interacting with our physical devices. It also provides an abstraction so we can deal with devices interchangeably.
DeviceAPI-Android is the DeviceAPI implementation for Android devices. It uses the command line tools for interacting with connected devices:
device = DeviceAPI::Android.devices.first
device.model #=> 'samsung gt-i9100'
device.orientation #=> :portrait
device.install('path/to/build.apk') #=> true
In addition to detecting and identifying physical devices, DeviceAPI-Android handles functions like:
DeviceAPI-IOS is the iOS implementation of DeviceAPI. It uses for interacting with connected devices.
This gem offers most of the same features as the Android version. The API is identical where possible:
device = DeviceAPI::IOS.devices.first
device.model #=> 'iPad mini 3'