Video recording on Android kills Appium node instance

[sskorol]

Hi @isonic1

Just tried flick video recording feature on real devices.

It works good in the following cases:

• video recording via cmd on both ios / android platforms;
• video recording via selenium grid hub with appium node on ios device;

It doesn't work unexpectedly on real android device via selenium grid hub / appium node. When recording is started, it just kills appium node cmd window.

Surprisingly there's nothing special in hub / node logs. Node just stops working.

platform: "ANDROID",
version: "5.1.1",
manufacturer: "samsung",
model: "SM-J200G",
sdk: "22",
host OS: Mac OS X 10.11.6,
appium: 1.6.0

Any idea about the root cause?

[isonic1]

Yeah, I just recently ran into this issue too. It's fixed now. Do a gem update flick to get the fixed version. Thanks for reporting!

[sskorol]

@isonic1 thanks for the fix! However I can't get a new version. gem update flick gives: Nothing to update output. Still see 0.3.2 version: https://rubygems.org/gems/flick

Update: just built it from sources. Will try to play with it tomorrow.

[sskorol]

I can confirm that it works fine now. However, still missing on rubygems.

[isonic1]

@sskorol yeah, some reason the push to rubygems.org timed out and the gem wasn't published. The latest gem 0.3.5 should be there now. Thanks again for reporting this!