Private Devices on App Automate

Fetch device details

To fetch details of the Private Devices assigned to you, authenticate your API request using your BrowserStack credentials and call the appropriate REST API endpoint. For more information, refer to the Private Devices REST API documentation.

Note the UDID of the device

From the API response, identify the device you want to use and note its UDID. This unique identifier is required to specify the device in your test configuration.

Configure the browserstack.yml file

Include the following capabilities in your browserstack.yml file:

• dedicatedDevice: Set this to true to indicate that the test should run on a private device.

• deviceId: Provide the UDID of the device you noted in Step 2.

Here’s an example of how to configure these capabilities:

userName: "<user name>"
accessKey: "<access key>"
app: bs://sample.app
platforms:
  - platformName: android
    deviceName: Samsung Galaxy S22
    platformVersion: "12.0"
    dedicatedDevice: true
    deviceId: "R3CT4094NBZ"
browserstackLocal: true
dedicatedDevice: true
buildName: browserstack-build-1
projectName: BrowserStack Sample

In this example:

• Replace the values for deviceName and platformVersion values with the appropriate values.

• Replace the value for deviceId with the UDID of your chosen device. To get the list of dedicated devices and their UDIDs, refer to the Private Devices REST API documentation.