Overview

When a device is connected (auto connect or "Connect" button is pressed), a device object from "Device" class is created, use static method "searchObject" to locate the device objects. For multiple device objects, it offers "DeviceArray" class (subclass from Array). Devices in DeviceArray objects will be perform the same task at the same time.

Device class offers close to 100 methods and properties to manipulate a device. DeviceArray class offers about 20+ commonly used methods. Please refer to {{JavaScript API documentation}} for all methods. You can extend Device and DeviceArray with ease, (See Extending Device and DeviceArray).

Use "Device.searchObject()" to locate created device objects, the device object format is "device@<10 digits>".

// Return one device object
var mySamsung = Device.searchObject('Samsung-S9');
// Return all device objects, DeviceArray
var allDevices = Device.searchObject(tcConst.DevAll);
// Return device objects belong to same group, DeviceArray
var allGroupX = Device.searchObject(tcConst.DevGroup, 'first row');
var allGroupY = Device.searchObject(tcConst.DevGroup, 'second row');
// Combine 2 groups to form a larger group, DeviceArray
var groupXY = allGroupX.concat(allGroupY);

Since DeviceArray() is a subclass of Array(), it inherits most of the methods from Array class, since all the TC specific methods are tied to DeviceArray, if you have an array, use "var ary = new DeviceArray().concat(ary)" to convert to DeviceArray.

// This will fail since there is no "click" method in Array
var device = Device.getMain();
var ary = [device];
ary.click(100,100);

// This will work
var device = Device.getMain();
var ary = new DeviceArray(device);
ary.click(100, 100);    // or ary.clickSync("OK");

Couple of examples:

// click location 100,200 on device name "Samsung-S10".
var device = Device.searchObject('Samsung-S10');
if (device) {
    device.click(100,200); 	// or device.clickSync("Start");
}

// click in the middle of the screen on all connected devices.
var devices = Device.searchObject(tcConst.DevAll);
if (devices) {
    devices.click(0.5, 0.5); 	// or device.clickSync("John");
}