Getting started

Patrol consists of 2 packages:

• patrol – the core package
• patrol_cli - the CLI app to run tests that use the native automation feature.

There are two ways of using Patrol:

• creating end-to-end UI tests that have the ability to interact with the native features of your app (eg. permission dialogs, notifications)

• enhancing your experience of developing widget tests by using our custom finders.

The next two sections guide you through the setup needed to start using Patrol in your Flutter app project.

Native automation setup guides you through the full setup needed to run tests that use the native automation feature. You don't need to go through this section if you only want to use custom finders.

Custom finders setup is much shorter than native automation setup, since it only covers the setup needed to use our custom finders feature in your widget tests. Much of what it covers is already covered in [native setup].