The latest articles on DEV Community by Svend White (@svendster). https://dev.to/svendster https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F1978547%2Fd3c57b67-1eab-4382-bcab-4b39f7d9ebf5.png https://dev.to/svendster en Svend White Sat, 28 Jun 2025 22:54:37 +0000 https://dev.to/svendster/fix-for-missing-android-ui-automator-viewer-1eh2 https://dev.to/svendster/fix-for-missing-android-ui-automator-viewer-1eh2 <p>A little PSA for Android testers using Appium: If you are beating your head against the wall because you can't for the life of you find this confounded <strong>UI Automator Viewer</strong> that's mentioned in article after article, that is probably because its seems to have been <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1kky60p/where_is_uiautomatorviewer/" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>deprecated</em></a> and removed from the Android SDK. </p> <p>You probably want to switch to <a href="https://appium.github.io/appium-inspector/latest/quickstart/installation/#" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Appium Inspector</strong></a>.</p> <p>I encountered this issue today and did quite a bit of googling without finding anything spelling things out clearly, so I figure posting this might help somebody else. (Especially given how even the <a href="https://developer.android.com/training/testing/other-components/ui-automator#inspect-ui" rel="noopener noreferrer">Android Studio documentation</a> still mentions <em>uiautomatorviewer</em>.)</p> appium android mobile