Localviewserver
LocalViewServer is an Android Library that implements ViewServer as part of an application instead of as a system component.
When a device is in secure mode, system ViewServer is not available, so this approach provides an alternative to be able to obtain the View hierarchy used by AndroidViewClient, hierarchyviewer and monitor.
LocalViewServer should be included in your project as an Android Library as showed in the following image.
TemperatureConverter is a sample application used to demonstrated several testing techniques and features.
TemperatureConverterActivity extends LocalViewServerActivity enabling the use of AndroidViewClient, Culebra and other utilities even on devices with Secure mode enabled.
If secure mode is enabled and you run this command line:
(eval $(adb shell getprop | dos2unix | egrep '\[ro\.secure]|\[ro\.debuggable]' | sed 's/\./_/g; s/]: /=/g; s/[][]//g'); [[ 1 == $ro_secure && 0 == $ro_debuggable ]] && echo "System is secure: AVC won't work" || echo "System is not secure: AVC will work")this is obtained:
System is secure: AVC won't work
Running TemperatureConverter with LocalViewServer will circumvent this restriction, though for this sole application.
In such case you will be able to run:
$ dump.py -IS
and obtain
com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow$DecorView NO_ID None
android.widget.LinearLayout NO_ID None
android.view.ViewStub id/action_mode_bar_stub None
android.widget.FrameLayout NO_ID None
android.widget.TextView id/title TemperatureConverter
android.widget.FrameLayout id/content None
android.widget.LinearLayout id/main_layout None
android.widget.TextView NO_ID Enter the temperature to convert
android.widget.TextView id/celsius_label Celsius
com.example.i2at.tc.EditNumber id/celsius
android.widget.TextView id/fahrenheit_label Fahrenheit
com.example.i2at.tc.EditNumber id/fahrenheit
android.widget.TextView id/debug
When an application supporting LocalViewServer is running on the device, monitor will be able to obtain the View hierarchy even if the device is in secure mode and does not support UiAutomator.
The following screenshot shows monitor displaying the TemperatureConverterActivity with LocalViewServer enabled.
LocalViewServer repository can be found at https://github.com/dtmilano/ViewServer