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A few months ago I spent an unfortunate amount of time setting up our GH Actions to successfully run our Maestro tests (on Android - iOS would be another story I think).
Now, while working on another task, I see that Expo / EAS offer a maestro job "type" which looks like a lot less configuration. I'm wondering if anyone is using it and can attest to its stability (or not).
Fwiw, my workflow file currently looks like this - it feels a bit duct-taped together, and I am totally open to hearing feedback on it. Looking at it, it feels very brittle and I would happily move to EAS if it simplifies this process.
tl;dr it:
- sets up an android emulator from a potential list of devices from a matrix
- Creates AVD on the emulator
- makes sure there's enough space on the emulator to even install my app
- downloads the latest staging version of the APK from eas (a bit hacky but is very consistent)
- Runs the maestro tests
- outputs screenshots and test results as artifcats
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on:
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
apk_url:
description: 'URL to the Staging APK from EAS'
required: true
jobs:
setup-emulator:
name: Setup Emulator (${{ matrix.device.profile }})
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
env:
FORCE_JAVASCRIPT_ACTIONS_TO_NODE24: true
strategy:
fail-fast: true
matrix:
device:
- { api: 33, profile: "pixel_7_pro" }
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Enable KVM
run: |
echo 'KERNEL=="kvm", GROUP="kvm", MODE="0666", OPTIONS+="static_node=kvm"' | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/99-kvm4all.rules
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
sudo udevadm trigger --name-match=kvm
- name: Check disk space
run: |
echo "Removing dotnet and swift directories..."
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/dotnet
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/swift
- name: AVD cache
uses: actions/cache@v4
id: avd-cache
with:
path: |
~/.android/avd/*
~/.android/adb*
key: avd-${{ matrix.device.api }}-2048M
- name: Create AVD and generate snapshot for caching
if: steps.avd-cache.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
uses: reactivecircus/android-emulator-runner@v2
with:
api-level: ${{ matrix.device.api }}
target: google_apis
arch: x86_64
profile: ${{ matrix.device.profile }}
force-avd-creation: false
emulator-options: -no-window -gpu swiftshader_indirect -noaudio -no-boot-anim -camera-back none
disable-animations: true
cores: 2
ram-size: 2048M
disk-size: 2048M
script: echo "Generated AVD snapshot for caching."
run-maestro-tests:
name: Run Maestro Tests (${{ matrix.device.profile }})
needs: setup-emulator
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
env:
FORCE_JAVASCRIPT_ACTIONS_TO_NODE24: true
strategy:
fail-fast: true
matrix:
device:
- { api: 33, profile: "pixel_7_pro" }
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Enable KVM
run: |
echo 'KERNEL=="kvm", GROUP="kvm", MODE="0666", OPTIONS+="static_node=kvm"' | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/99-kvm4all.rules
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
sudo udevadm trigger --name-match=kvm
- name: Check disk space
run: |
echo "Removing dotnet and swift directories..."
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/dotnet
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/swift
- name: AVD cache
uses: actions/cache@v4
id: avd-cache
with:
path: |
~/.android/avd/*
~/.android/adb*
key: avd-${{ matrix.device.api }}-2048M
- name: Setup Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v6
with:
node-version: 22.x
cache: 'yarn'
- name: Setup EAS
uses: expo/expo-github-action@v8
with:
eas-version: latest
token: ${{ secrets.EXPO_TOKEN }}
- name: Install dependencies
run: yarn install
- name: Download Latest Staging APK
id: download_apk
run: |
mkdir -p ./apk
BUILD_LIST=$(eas build:list --platform=android --status=finished --profile=staging --json --non-interactive)
BUILD_ID=$(echo "$BUILD_LIST" | jq -r '.[-1].id')
ARTIFACT_URL=$(echo "$BUILD_LIST" | jq -r '.[0].artifacts.buildUrl')
echo "Downloading from: $ARTIFACT_URL"
curl -L "$ARTIFACT_URL" -o ./apk/app-client-debug.apk
- name: Verify APK Download
run: |
if [ -f "./apk/app-client-debug.apk" ]; then
MIN_SIZE=200
FILE_SIZE=$(du -m ./apk/app-client-debug.apk | cut -f1)
echo "APK exists. Size: ${FILE_SIZE}MB"
if [ $FILE_SIZE -lt $MIN_SIZE ]; then
echo "Error: APK size is less than ${MIN_SIZE}MB!"
exit 1
fi
else
echo "Error: APK file NOT found!"
exit 1
fi
- name: Set up JDK 17
uses: actions/setup-java@v4
with:
distribution: 'temurin'
java-version: '17'
- name: Install Maestro
run: |
curl -Ls "https://get.maestro.mobile.dev" | bash
echo "$HOME/.maestro/bin" >> $GITHUB_PATH
- name: Run Android Emulator and Maestro Tests
uses: reactivecircus/android-emulator-runner@v2
with:
api-level: ${{ matrix.device.api }}
target: google_apis
arch: x86_64
profile: ${{ matrix.device.profile }}
disk-size: 2048M
ram-size: 2048M
cores: 2
force-avd-creation: false
disable-animations: true
working-directory: .
emulator-options: -no-window -gpu swiftshader_indirect -noaudio -no-boot-anim -camera-back none
script: bash .github/scripts/run-maestro.sh
- name: (Optional) Upload Test Reports
if: always()
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
with:
name: maestro-test-report-${{ matrix.device.profile }}
path: reports/
u/GludiusMaximus — 24 days ago