Test iOS App Settings

App-specific permission settings are added by the OS based on the permissions that a user grants the app.

These permission settings are set only when your app encounters the related permission pop-up on the screen.

In this section, you’ll learn:

• Supported permission settings
• How to update app-specific permission settings
• Example custom executor script for supported app-specific permission settings
• Points to remember when updating app-specific permission settings

Supported permission settings

Currently, App Automate supports the following permission settings:

• Location
• Camera
• Contacts
• Photos
• Notifications

Update app-specific permission settings

Add the updateAppSettings action in the custom BrowserStack JavaScript executor and wrap any app-specific permission settings within the Permission Settings object.

The following example image and code shows how to set the Location permission to Always and enable the Precise Location setting such that location access is granted to your app.

// set Location Access to Always
JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
jse.executeScript("browserstack_executor: {\"action\": \"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": {
    \"Permission Settings\": {
        \"Location\": {
            \"ALLOW LOCATION ACCESS\": \"Always\"
            }
        }
    }
}");

// enable the Precise Location feature
jse.executeScript("browserstack_executor: {\"action\": \"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": {
    \"Permission Settings\": {
        \"Location\": {
            \"Precise Location\": \"ON\"
            }
        }
    }
}");

// set Location Access to Always
await driver.execute("browserstack_executor: {\"action\": \"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": {\"Permission Settings\":{\"Location\":{\"ALLOW LOCATION ACCESS\": \"Always\"}}}}");

// enable the Precise Location feature
await driver.execute("browserstack_executor: {\"action\": \"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": { \"Permission Settings\":{\"Location\": {\"Precise Location\": \"ON\"}}}}")

# set Location Access to Always
driver.execute_script('browserstack_executor: {\"action\": \"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": {\"Permission Settings\": {\"Location\": {\"ALLOW LOCATION ACCESS\": \"Always\"}}} }')

# enable the Precise Location feature
driver.execute_script("browserstack_executor: {\"action\": \"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": {\"Permission Settings\": {\"Location\": {\"Precise Location\": \"ON\"}}} }")

caps["javascriptEnabled"] = "true" #include this capability for JavaScript executors to work

# set Location Access to Always
driver.execute_script("browserstack_executor: {\"action\": \"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": {
    \"Permission Settings\": {
        \"Location\": {
            \"ALLOW LOCATION ACCESS\": \"Always\"
            }
        }
    }
}")

# enable the Precise Location feature
driver.execute_script("browserstack_executor: {\"action\": \"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": {
    \"Permission Settings\": {
        \"Location\": {
            \"Precise Location\": \"ON\"
            }
        }
    }
}")

// set Location Access to Always
((IJavaScriptExecutor)driver).ExecuteScript("browserstack_executor: {\"action\": \"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": {\"Permission Settings\": {\"Location\": {\"ALLOW LOCATION ACCESS\": \"Always\"}}}}");

// enable the Precise Location feature
((IJavaScriptExecutor)driver).ExecuteScript("browserstack_executor: {\"action\": \"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": {\"Permission Settings\": { \"Location\": { \"Precise Location\": \"ON\" }}}}");

Example custom executors for supported app-specific permission settings

The following list provides a few examples of custom BrowserStack executor scripts that you can use to update the supported app-specific permission settings:

• Location: To set the ALLOW LOCATION ACCESS permission to While Using the App for the app to access the device’s location.

  driver.executeScript("browserstack_executor: {\"action\": \"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": {\"Permission Settings\": {\"Location\": { \"ALLOW LOCATION ACCESS\": \"While Using the App\"}}}}");
  

• Contacts: To enable the Contacts setting for the app to access the device’s contact list.

  driver.executeScript("browserstack_executor: {\"action\": \"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": {\"Permission Settings\": {\"Contacts\": \"ON\"}}}");
  

• Camera: To enable the Camera setting for the app to access the device’s camera.

  driver.executeScript("browserstack_executor: {\"action\": \"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": {\"Permission Settings\": {\"Camera\": \"ON\"}}}");
  

• Photos: To set the Photos permission to All Photos for the app to access the images stored in the Photos app.

  driver.executeScript("browserstack_executor: {\"action\": \"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": {\"Permission Settings\": {\"Photos\": \"All Photos\"}}}");
  

• Notifications: To enable push notifications for your iOS app.

  driver.executeScript("browserstack_executor: {\"action\":\"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": { \"Permission Settings\": { \"Notifications\": { \"Allow Notifications\": \"ON\" } } } }")
  

Points to remember

• Ensure that you use the JavaScript executor in a sequence to update dependent permission settings. For example, updating the Precise Location setting before the Location setting results in a test flakiness.
• If you have configured some pop-ups in your iOS app, ensure to handle those pop-ups such that they do not interfere with our automation to update your app-specific permission settings.

These are the permission settings added by developers using the iOS Settings bundle during the development of an iOS app. To learn more about iOS Settings Bundle, check out the official Apple Documentation.

In this section, you will learn:

• How to update permission settings added via Settings bundle
• Points to remember when updating permission settings

Update permission settings added via iOS Settings bundle

You can update permission settings, added via the iOS Settings bundle, in BrowserStack using either of the following ways:

• Using the app update settings capability: It is used to update app settings at the beginning of the test.
• Using the custom BrowserStack Javascript executor: It is used to update app settings in the middle of the test execution.

Use the information in either of the following tabs to update permission settings added via the Settings bundle:

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
HashMap<String, Object> browserstackOptions = new HashMap<String, Object>();
HashMap<Object, Object> appSettings = new HashMap<Object, Object>();
appSettings.put("Environment","QA_1");

HashMap<Object, Object> childSettings = new HashMap<Object, Object>();
childSettings.put("Child Setting 1","abc");

appSettings.put("Child Settings",childSettings);

browserstackOptions.put("updateAppSettings",appSettings);
capabilities.setCapability("bstack:options",browserstackOptions);

var capabilities = {
   	'bstack:options' : {
   		"updateAppSettings" : {
            "Environment" : "QA_1",
            "Child Settings" : {
                "Child Setting 1" : "abc"
            }
        }
    }
}

desired_cap = {
   	'bstack:options' : {
   		"updateAppSettings" : {
            "Environment" : "QA_1",
            "Child Settings" : {
                "Child Setting 1" : "abc"
            }
        }
   	},
 }

capabilities = {
     'bstack:options' => {
        "updateAppSettings" => {
            "Environment" => "QA_1",
            "Child Settings" => {
                "Child Setting 1" => "abc"
            }
        }
    },
}

AppiumOptions capabilities = new AppiumOptions();
Dictionary<string, object> browserstackOptions = new Dictionary<string, object>();
Dictionary<object, object> appSettings = new Dictionary<object, object>();
appSettings.Add("Environment","QA_1");

Dictionary<object, object> childSettings = new Dictionary<object, object>();
childSettings.Add("Child Setting 1","abc");

appSettings.Add("Child Settings",childSettings);

browserstackOptions.Add("updateAppSettings",appSettings);
capabilities.AddAdditionalCapability("bstack:options",browserstackOptions);

DesiredCapabilities desiredCapabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
HashMap<Object, Object> appSettings = new HashMap<Object, Object>();
appSettings.put("Environment","QA_1");

HashMap<Object, Object> childSettings = new HashMap<Object, Object>();
childSettings.put("Child Setting 1","abc");

appSettings.put("Child Settings",childSettings);

capabilities.setCapability("browserstack.updateAppSettings",appSettings);

var capabilities = {
	'browserstack.updateAppSettings':  {
        "Environment" : "QA_1",
        "Child Settings" : {
              "Child Setting 1" : "abc"
              }
    }
}

desired_cap = {
	'browserstack.updateAppSettings': {
        "Environment" : "QA_1",
        "Child Settings" : {
            "Child Setting 1" : "abc"
        }
    }
}

desired_caps = {
    'browserstack.updateAppSettings'=> {
        "Environment" => "QA_1",
        "Child Settings" => {
            "Child Setting 1" => "abc"
        }
    }
}

AppiumOptions capabilities = new AppiumOptions();
Dictionary<object, object> appSettings = new Dictionary<object, object>();
appSettings.Add("Environment","QA_1");

Dictionary<object, object> childSettings = new Dictionary<object, object>();
childSettings.Add("Child Setting 1","abc");

appSettings.Add("Child Settings",childSettings);

capabilities.AddAdditionalCapability("browserstack.updateAppSettings",appSettings);

JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
jse.executeScript("browserstack_executor: {\"action\":\"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": {
    \"Environment\": \"QA_1\",
    \"Child Settings\" : {
        \"Child Setting 1\" : \"abc\"
    }
}}");

await driver.execute("browserstack_executor: {\"action\":\"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": {
    \"Environment\": \"QA_1\",
    \"Child Settings\" : {
        \"Child Setting 1\" : \"abc\"
    }
}}");

driver.execute_script('browserstack_executor: {\"action\":\"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": {
    \"Environment\": \"QA_1\",
    \"Child Settings\" : {
        \"Child Setting 1\" : \"abc\"
    }
}}')

caps["javascriptEnabled"] = "true" #include this capability for JavaScript executors to work
driver.execute_script("browserstack_executor: {\"action\": \"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\":
{
    \"Environment\": \"QA_1\",
    \"Child Settings\" : {
        \"Child Setting 1\" : \"abc\"
        }
}}")

((IJavaScriptExecutor)driver).ExecuteScript("browserstack_executor: {\"action\":\"updateAppSettings\", \"arguments\": {
    \"Environment\": \"QA_1\",
    \"Child Settings\" : {
        \"Child Setting 1\" : \"abc\"
        }
}}");

Points to remember

• The title of the keys displayed on your iOS app settings page must be unique.
• We currently do not support updating values of the PSSliderSpecifier and PSGroupSpecifier keys, which are added using the iOS Settings bundle in your iOS app.