Could not find 'adb.exe' in ......? - python-3.x

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How to fix Could not find 'adb.exe'?
I think my question is one of the most asked and answered question of the Android world. I read and tried them all.
I checked and update my environment variables.
I desinstalled and reinstalled ANdroid Studio
I copied pasted adb in all possible folders:
C:\Users\Nino\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk
C:\Program Files\Android
C:\Program Files\Android\tools
C:\Program Files\Android\platform-tools
In fact I spent all the day by searching, reading and testing all the solution possible.
And nothing fixed my problem. So I really need your help.
I am newbie and I want to share my experience. Here is my code:
from appium import webdriver
import unittest
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
class Instagram(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
desired_caps = {}
desired_caps['platformName']='Android'
desired_caps['platformVersion']='6.0'
desired_caps['deviceName']='S6S5IN3G'
desired_caps['noReset']='true'
desired_caps['appPackage']='com.instagram'
desired_caps['appActivity']='com.instagram.android.activity.MainTabActivity'
self.driver = webdriver.Remote('http://localhost:4723/wd/hub',desired_caps)
#self.driver = webdriver.Remote('http://0.0.0.0:4723/wd/hub',desired_caps)
def tearDown(self):
self.driver.quit()
def test_scrap_email(self):
search_button = self.driver.findElement(By.xpath ("//android.widget.ImageView[#bounds='[126,800][162,836]']"))
search_button.click()
if __name__ == '__main__':
suite = unittest.Testloader().loadTestsFromTestCase(Instagram)
unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=1).run(suite)
This is the errors:
Testing started at 01:00 ...
C:\Users\Nino\PycharmProjects\Instagram\venv\Scripts\python.exe
"C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition
2019.1.3\helpers\pycharm_jb_unittest_runner.py" --target mybot_instagram.Instagram.test_scrap_email Launching unittests with
arguments python -m unittest
mybot_instagram.Instagram.test_scrap_email in
C:\Users\Nino\PycharmProjects\Instagram
Error Traceback (most recent call last): File
"C:\Users\Nino\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\unittest\case.py",
line 59, in testPartExecutor
yield File "C:\Users\Nino\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\unittest\case.py",
line 624, in run
self.setUp() File "C:\Users\Nino\PycharmProjects\Instagram\mybot_instagram.py", line 17,
in setUp
self.driver = webdriver.Remote('http://localhost:4723/wd/hub',desired_caps) File
"C:\Users\Nino\PycharmProjects\Instagram\venv\lib\site-packages\appium\webdriver\webdriver.py",
line 144, in init
proxy File "C:\Users\Nino\PycharmProjects\Instagram\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py",
line 157, in init
self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile) File "C:\Users\Nino\PycharmProjects\Instagram\venv\lib\site-packages\appium\webdriver\webdriver.py",
line 219, in start_session
response = self.execute(RemoteCommand.NEW_SESSION, parameters) File
"C:\Users\Nino\PycharmProjects\Instagram\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py",
line 321, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response) File "C:\Users\Nino\PycharmProjects\Instagram\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py",
line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: An unknown
server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original
error: Could not find 'adb.exe' in ["C:\Program
Files\Android\platform-tools\platform-tools\adb.exe","C:\Program
Files\Android\platform-tools\emulator\adb.exe","C:\Program
Files\Android\platform-tools\tools\adb.exe","C:\Program
Files\Android\platform-tools\tools\bin\adb.exe"]. Do you have
Android Build Tools installed at 'C:\Program
Files\Android\platform-tools'?
Assertion failed
C:\Users\Nino\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\unittest\case.py:656:
ResourceWarning: unclosed
outcome.errors.clear() ResourceWarning: Enable tracemalloc to get the
object allocation traceback
Ran 1 test in 2.139s
FAILED (errors=1)
Process finished with exit code 1
Assertion failed
Assertion failed
I am using pycharm. When I run the code I see some error log, but when I run it from cmd, there is nothing.
And here the main part of Appium log:
> Android >= 6, since UIAutomator1 framework is not maintained anymore by the OS vendor.
> [Appium] Appium v1.13.0 creating new AndroidDriver (v4.15.1) session
> [Appium] Capabilities:
> [Appium] platformName: Android
> [Appium] platformVersion: 6.0
> [Appium] deviceName: S6S5IN3G
> [Appium] noReset: true
> [Appium] appPackage: com.instagram
> [Appium] appActivity: com.instagram.android.activity.MainTabActivity
> [BaseDriver] W3C capabilities {"alwaysMatch":{"platformNa... and MJSONWP desired capabilities {"platformName":"Android","... were
> provided
> [BaseDriver] Creating session with W3C capabilities: {"alwaysMatch":{"platformNa...
> [BaseDriver] Capability 'noReset' changed from string to boolean. This may cause unexpected behavior
> [BaseDriver] Session created with session id: 786ec1a0-280c-4573-a917-18df120f0629
> [AndroidDriver] Shutting down Android driver
> [AndroidDriver] Called deleteSession but bootstrap wasn't active
> [BaseDriver] Event 'newSessionStarted' logged at 1566428435932 (01:00:35 GMT+0200 (Paris, Madrid (heure d’été)))
> [W3C] Encountered internal error running command: Error: Could not find 'adb.exe' in ["C:\\Program
> Files\\Android\\platform-tools\\platform-tools\\adb.exe","C:\\Program
> Files\\Android\\platform-tools\\emulator\\adb.exe","C:\\Program
> Files\\Android\\platform-tools\\tools\\adb.exe","C:\\Program
> Files\\Android\\platform-tools\\tools\\bin\\adb.exe"]. Do you have
> Android Build Tools installed at 'C:\Program
> Files\Android\platform-tools'?
> [W3C] at ADB. (C:\Users\Nino\AppData\Local\Programs\Appium\resources\app\node_modules\appium\node_modules\appium-adb\lib\tools\system-calls.js:106:11)
> [W3C] at Generator.next ()
> [W3C] at asyncGeneratorStep (C:\Users\Nino\AppData\Local\Programs\Appium\resources\app\node_modules\appium\node_modules\#babel\runtime\helpers\asyncToGenerator.js:3:24)
> [W3C] at _next (C:\Users\Nino\AppData\Local\Programs\Appium\resources\app\node_modules\appium\node_modules\#babel\runtime\helpers\asyncToGenerator.js:25:9)
> [W3C] at run (C:\Users\Nino\AppData\Local\Programs\Appium\resources\app\node_modules\appium\node_modules\core-js\modules\es6.promise.js:75:22)
> [W3C] at C:\Users\Nino\AppData\Local\Programs\Appium\resources\app\node_modules\appium\node_modules\core-js\modules\es6.promise.js:92:30
> [W3C] at flush (C:\Users\Nino\AppData\Local\Programs\Appium\resources\app\node_modules\appium\node_modules\core-js\modules\_microtask.js:18:9)
> [W3C] at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:61:11)
> [HTTP] <-- POST /wd/hub/session 500 49 ms - 1544
> [HTTP]
Can anyone suggest me some solutions please?
THank you.

Answer 1

You need to have adb.exe in your operating system PATH
I would recommend going for the following setup:
Create ANDROID_HOME environment variable pointing to your Android SDK installation
Create JAVA_HOME environment variable pointing to your JDK installation
Create PATH environment variable like:
%ANDROID_HOME%\tools;%ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools;%JAVA_HOME%\bin
That should be sufficient to successfully launch your Python Appium test
You can always use appium-doctor tool in order to check the integrity of your Appium pre-requisites installation.
More information:
Appium Getting Started
Appium - Code Examples - Python