Add emulator support

[DanielMSchmidt]

Hi there,

I would like to be able to make assertions on android emulators available on the system.
I plan to add a config that allows me to

• specify that there should be an emulator with a given name
• specify that there should be an emulator with an sdk version
• a mix of the above

I have a couple of questions before starting to work on this:

• Would it make sense to extract android stuff and make this co-dependent on the other module? It seems like android devs could benefit from it as well.
• Do you think an important property of emulators is missing?

[morgandonze]

Hey @DanielMSchmidt sorry for the delayed response. Yours is an interesting idea.

I think it would make sense to write it as a plugin, and you could probably combine both Android and iOS. That's just my opinion.

I'm sorry I don't know what you mean by Do you think an important property of emulators is missing?. Are you asking whether adding the ability to make assertions about emulators would be useful?

@GantMan do you have anything to add?

[DanielMSchmidt]

I'm sorry I don't know what you mean by Do you think an important property of emulators is missing?. Are you asking whether adding the ability to make assertions about emulators would be useful?

I was referring to

• specify that there should be an emulator with a given name
• specify that there should be an emulator with an sdk version

and wondered if there is more area that should be covered in the plugin to be really useful

[tabrindle]

Hey all - the existing info we have on Android SDKs come from envinfo.

  SDKs:
    iOS SDK:
      Platforms: iOS 11.0, macOS 10.13, tvOS 11.0, watchOS 4.0
    Android SDK:
      Build Tools: 27.0.3
      API Levels: 26

It is conceivable that we could add emulators to envinfo, and thus solidarity. I will look into and post back here.

[GantMan]

@DanielMSchmidt - sorry for the delay. I've been traveling!

I like the idea of adding rules that allow you to specify emulators, such a PR would be accepted.

On Android, one strange thing to include is that they might use genymotion?

Anyhow, I expect whatever you come up with would be best.

[tabrindle]

Here is a sample of something I am working on in envinfo - is this what y'all are looking for?

  SDKs:
    iOS SDK:
      Platforms: iOS 12.0, macOS 10.14, tvOS 12.0, watchOS 5.0
    Android SDK:
      API Levels: 28
      Build Tools: 28.0.3
      System Images: android-28 | Google Play Intel x86 Atom

[DanielMSchmidt]

@tabrindle Yeahm pretty much :)

[tabrindle]

ok this is in envinfo 5.12.0.

test it out npx envinfo@latest --sdks

@GantMan Correct me if I'm wrong, we will need to add this upstream in Solidarity first.

[GantMan]

intermediate release

Solidarity 2.3.1
and
solidarity-react-native 2.1.0

Please give this a go. I'm still adding/making features for Solidarity 3.0, so I did these minor releases.