Change screen orientation for Espresso tests

Change screen orientation of the device for your Espresso test executions on BrowserStack App Automate

You can change the screen orientation of an Android device to set your application in portrait or landscape mode during the execution of the test. In order to change screen orientation, you need to set the deviceOrientation parameter in the REST API request to start Espresso test execution.

REST API endpoint:

POST /app-automate/espresso/v2/build

The following table lists the parameter used to change the screen orientation:

Example cURL request:

Set the screen orientation to landscape:

curl -u "YOUR_USERNAME:YOUR_ACCESS_KEY" \
-X POST "https://api-cloud.browserstack.com/app-automate/espresso/v2/build" \
-d '{"deviceOrientation": "landscape", "devices": ["Samsung Galaxy S8-7.0"], "app": "bs://f7c874f21852ba57957a3fdc33f47514288c4ba4", "testSuite": "bs://e994db8333e32a5863938666c3c3491e778352ff"}' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"