Example for writing appium specs that can run locally and on BuddyBuild via Testdroid.

buddybuild_postbuild.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
export APK_FILE="$BUDDYBUILD_WORKSPACE/android/app/build/outputs/apk/app-release.apk"
echo "Uploading $APK_FILE"
export TESTDROID_FILE=`curl -s --user $TESTDROID_API: -F myAppFile=@$APK_FILE http://appium.testdroid.com/upload | node -pe "JSON.parse(require('fs').readFileSync('/dev/stdin').toString()).value.uploads.myAppFile"`
echo "Uploaded as $TESTDROID_FILE"
npm run functional-test

example.spec.js

import wd from 'wd'

describe('Example App', function () {
  jasmine.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_INTERVAL = 300000

  var driver

  beforeAll(function () {
    var config, capabilities
    if (process.env.TESTDROID) {
      capabilities = {
        platformName: 'Android',
        testdroid_target: 'Android',
        deviceName: 'Android Device',
        testdroid_apiKey: process.env.TESTDROID_API,
        testdroid_testrun: 'BuddyBuild ' + process.env.BUDDYBUILD_BUILD_NUMBER,
        testdroid_device: 'LG Google Nexus 5 6.0 -EU', // the exact device string as
        testdroid_project: 'Example Project', // the exact project name as set up in your Bitbar project overview
        testdroid_app: process.env.TESTDROID_FILE
      }
      driver = wd.promiseChainRemote('http://appium.testdroid.com/wd/hub')
    } else {
      config = {
        host: 'localhost',
        port: 4723
      }
      capabilities = {
        platformName: 'Android',
        deviceName: '5203e181e8f353df',
        appPackage: 'com.example',
        appActivity: '.MainActivity'
      }
      driver = wd.promiseChainRemote(config)
    }
    return driver.init(capabilities, function (error) { console.log(error) }).setImplicitWaitTimeout(15000).nodeify()
  })

  afterAll(function () {
    return driver.quit()
  });

  it('should show page title', function () {
    return driver.elementsByXPath('//android.widget.TextView').then(elements => {
      return elements[0].text()
    }).then(text => {
      expect(text).to.be.equal('My Example App')
    })
  })
})

jest-functional-tests.json

{
  "preset": "jest-react-native",
  "unmockedModulePathPatterns": [
    "node_modules/react/",
    "node_modules/enzyme/"
  ],
  "testEnvironment": "jsdom",
  "testPathIgnorePatterns": [
    "<rootDir>/src/",
    "<rootDir>/node_modules/"
  ]
}