How to Test Toast Messages using Appium?

We can not directly used Appium Client API to test toast messages. So here we will import Tess4j jar in our project and their APIs to Read Toast Messages From our Screenshot . Once we have the text on the screen we can verify the toast message text in our Appium Test Case via various assertions .

For more Details Refer to this Video -

Let us see the code to take screen shot and then read the text from screen shot.

package com.appium.xample;



import net.sourceforge.tess4j.ITesseract;
import net.sourceforge.tess4j.Tesseract;
import net.sourceforge.tess4j.TesseractException;
import net.sourceforge.tess4j.util.LoadLibs;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.apache.commons.io.FilenameUtils;
import org.openqa.selenium.OutputType;
import org.openqa.selenium.TakesScreenshot;

import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver;

public class ReadToastMessage {
 
  static String scrShotDir = "screenshots";
  File scrFile;
  static File scrShotDirPath = new java.io.File("./"+ scrShotDir+ "//");
  String destFile;
  static AndroidDriver driver = null;
 
 public String readToastMessage() throws TesseractException {
  String imgName = takeScreenShot();
  String result = null;
  File imageFile = new File(scrShotDirPath, imgName);
  System.out.println("Image name is :" + imageFile.toString());
  ITesseract instance = new Tesseract();

  File tessDataFolder = LoadLibs.extractTessResources("tessdata"); // Extracts
                   // Tessdata
                   // folder
                   // from
                   // referenced
                   // tess4j
                   // jar
                   // for
                   // language
                   // support
  instance.setDatapath(tessDataFolder.getAbsolutePath()); // sets tessData
                // path

  result = instance.doOCR(imageFile);
  System.out.println(result);
  return result;
 }

 /**
  * Takes screenshot of active screen
  * 
  * @return ImageFileName
  */
 public String takeScreenShot() {
  File scrFile = ((TakesScreenshot) driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE); 
  
  SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy__hh_mm_ssaa");
  new File(scrShotDir).mkdirs(); // Create folder under project with name
          // "screenshots" if doesn't exist
  destFile = dateFormat.format(new Date()) + ".png"; // Set file name
               // using current
               // date time.
  try {
   FileUtils.copyFile(scrFile, new File(scrShotDir + "/" + destFile)); // Copy
                    // paste
                    // file
                    // at
                    // destination
                    // folder
                    // location
  } catch (IOException e) {
   System.out.println("Image not transfered to screenshot folder");
   e.printStackTrace();
  }
  return destFile;
 }
}