No getprop('display.height') or getprop('display.width') on 4.3 Nexus 7 for AndroidViewClient 4.0

[nickwender]

On my Nexus 7 (stock 4.3), anything that relies on getprop('display.height') or getprop('display.width') fails as those commands return nothing.

Running adb shell getprop on my Nexus 7 returns two properties that may be of use:

persist.sys.NV_DISPXRES (value 800)
persist.sys.NV_DISPYRES (value 1280)

I am not sure if this is a change in Android 4.3 properties, a Nexus 7 issue. Seems outside the scope of AndroidViewClient, other than it appears that AndroidViewClient assumes the height and width properties will exist.

Update:

I do not think that 'display.height' and 'display.width' are generic for the getprop command. If you look at the source for the monkey daemon, (http://androidxref.com/4.3_r2.1/xref/development/cmds/monkey/src/com/android/commands/monkey/MonkeySourceNetworkVars.java#86), you can see these values are discovered in some other way.

[nickwender]

Based on a StackOverflow question/answer, screen size should be available in the output of the

adb shell dumpsys window

command. However, some tests indicate that the exact formatting of the entry containing height and width may be device specfic.

Ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7527459/android-device-screen-size

[dtmilano]

You are totally right. These properties were not implemented in v4.0.0, mainly because different sources give different results (probably dumpsys window is the most accurate).
I will be fixing the problem ASAP.

[dtmilano]

Please verify it and close it if fixed.

[nickwender]

Fixed on Nexus 7.