Upload apps using public URL
In order to test your native and hybrid apps on BrowserStack using Espresso, you first need to upload your app to BrowserStack servers. Its easy to upload an Android app (.apk
or .aab
file) from a public URL to BrowserStack using the REST API. This approach is useful when the app is hosted on a remote server (e.g. S3 bucket) and its downloadable via a publicly accessible URL.
Here is an example cURL
request to upload an Android app using a public URL :
curl -u "YOUR_USERNAME:YOUR_ACCESS_KEY" \
-X POST "https://api-cloud.browserstack.com/app-automate/espresso/v2/app" \
-F "url=https://www.browserstack.com/app-automate/sample-apps/android/Calculator.apk"
A sample response to the above API request is shown below :
{
"app_url":"bs://f7c874f21852ba57957a3fdc33f47514288c4ba4"
}
Please note the value of app_url
in the API response (bs://f7c874f21852....
in the above example). This value will be used later to specify the application under test for your Espresso test execution.
You can manage your uploaded apps by using our REST API. Use the recent apps API endpoint to list your recently uploaded apps. You can delete your uploaded apps by using the delete app API endpoint. By default, we will delete the uploaded app after 30 days from the date of upload.
- App upload will take a few seconds to about a minute depending on the size of your app. Do not interrupt the
cURL
command until you get the response back. - If you upload an unsigned version of the Android app, we sign them with our certificates before installing them to our devices. Similarly, whenever
.aab
files are uploaded, we convert them to a universal APK and sign them with our certificates. When BrowserStack resigns the apps, your app’s integration with third-party libraries such as Google Firebase services, Google Maps SDK, Facebook SDK, etc may not work if you have restricted the use of API keys based on the SHA-1 certificate fingerprint of the app’s signing key. To avoid this issue, you can sign the APK with your own certificates before uploading the app to BrowserStack.
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