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Test environment for Android devices - AWS Device Farm
Supported software for Android devices

Test environment for Android devices

For the full list of available test hosts and how to select one, see Hosts for custom test environments.

AWS Device Farm utilizes Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) host machines running Amazon Linux to execute Android tests. When you schedule a test run, Device Farm allocates a dedicated host for each device to independently run tests. The host machines terminate after the test run along with any generated artifacts.

For Android devices, use the android_test_host field of your test spec file to select the amazon_linux_2023 or amazon_linux_2 test host, or default. The field is required for Android test runs. The recommended test host is amazon_linux_2023. To upgrade existing tests, see Upgrading to the latest Android test host.

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Supported software for Android devices

To support Android device testing, Device Farm test hosts for Android devices come pre-configured with the Android SDK Build-Tools and Platform-Tools, which include the Android Debug Bridge (adb). For other available software, see Supported software within custom test environments.