After updating to Appium 2 I am unable to compare and check if the platform is Android or iOS

[manoj_a]

I kind of re-wrote the code like this

if(driver instanceof AndroidDriver)

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Crossplatform testing on Appium 2.0

Since I’ve encountered known issues with the WebDriverAgentRunner on appium 1.22.x and Xcode 14 I’ve decided to move over to Appium 2.0. I currently have a cross platform setup for Android and iOS, using PageFactory, where the driver is conditionally instantiatied as an AndroidDriver or IOSDriver, depending on the needs of the test. The setup uses the appium Java client. With that said, all mobile actions I have are executed by the parent AppiumDriver class, however this is no longer possible o…