Python - turn off wifi with MonkeyRunner

Question

The following Python script will be run with MonkeyRunner:

from com.android.monkeyrunner import MonkeyDevice, MonkeyRunner, MonkeyView, MonkeyImage

my_device = MonkeyRunner.waitForConnection()

activity = "android.settings.WIFI_SETTINGS"
my_device.startActivity(action=activity)

The WiFi setting will pop up on the screen.

How can check what the WiFi status is? And in case it is turned on, how can turn it off?

It can be done with an ADB command:

wifistate = os.popen("adb -s emulator-5554 shell getprop wlan.driver.status")

But how can it be done without opening a process.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 06 '14 at 00:18

This script, that can be generated automatically using AndroidViewClient/culebra and then being slightly edited to handle the ON/OFF case does exactly what you need:

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
'''
Copyright (C) 2013-2014  Diego Torres Milano
Created on 2014-12-05 by Culebra v8.18.1
                      __    __    __    __
                     /  \  /  \  /  \  /  \ 
____________________/  __\/  __\/  __\/  __\_____________________________
___________________/  /__/  /__/  /__/  /________________________________
                   | / \   / \   / \   / \   \___
                   |/   \_/   \_/   \_/   \    o \ 
                                           \_____/--<
@author: Diego Torres Milano
@author: Jennifer E. Swofford (ascii art snake)
'''


import re
import sys
import os


import unittest

from com.dtmilano.android.viewclient import ViewClient, CulebraTestCase


class CulebraTests(CulebraTestCase):

    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls):
        cls.kwargs1 = {'ignoreversioncheck': False, 'verbose': False, 'ignoresecuredevice': False}
        cls.kwargs2 = {'startviewserver': True, 'forceviewserveruse': False, 'autodump': False, 'ignoreuiautomatorkilled': True}
        cls.options = {'start-activity': None, 'multi-device': False, 'unit-test-class': True, 'save-screenshot': None, 'use-dictionary': False, 'dictionary-keys-from': 'id', 'scale': 1, 'find-views-with-content-description': True, 'window': -1, 'orientation-locked': None, 'save-view-screenshots': None, 'find-views-by-id': True, 'do-not-verify-initial-screen-dump': True, 'use-regexps': False, 'auto-regexps': None, 'use-jar': False, 'verbose-comments': False, 'gui': True, 'find-views-with-text': True, 'prepend-to-sys-path': False, 'output': '/Users/diego/tmp/settings-wifi.py', 'unit-test-method': None, 'interactive': False}
        cls.sleep = 5

    def setUp(self):
        super(CulebraTests, self).setUp()

    def tearDown(self):
        super(CulebraTests, self).tearDown()

    def preconditions(self):
        if not super(CulebraTests, self).preconditions():
            return False
        return True

    def testSomething(self):
        if not self.preconditions():
            self.fail('Preconditions failed')

        self.vc.dump(window=-1)
        self.vc.findViewWithTextOrRaise(re.compile(u'Wi.Fi')).touch()
        self.vc.sleep(CulebraTests.sleep)
        self.vc.dump(window=-1)
        try:
            self.assertIsNotNone(self.vc.findViewWithText(u'OFF'))
        except:
            self.vc.findViewWithTextOrRaise(u'ON').touch()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    CulebraTests.main()

I created it using culebra GUI, clicking on the Wi-Fi item, checking the state using culebra's CTRL-T, and clicking on the toggle. Then I manually edit it to add the try/except block for ON/OFF.

Thanks, I am trying to get just the WiFi status. Is it possible to do somehow with: activity = "android.settings.WIFI_SETTINGS" my_device.startActivity(action=activity) — Empario, Dec 30 '14 at 04:55
Yes, try `culebra --help` and you'll see `-a, --start-activity=COMPONENT starts Activity before dump` — Diego Torres Milano, Dec 30 '14 at 06:00

Python - turn off wifi with MonkeyRunner

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