Android: The page is scrolled down when trying to access an element located at the top of the page

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Hello,
I’m trying to understand a bit what’s happening in my android tests. The issue is that I am trying to access the first edit text on a registration screen. When the screen is reached, the page is scrolled down, so that the element couldn’t be found anymore.

However, if I “help” appium by manually scrolling the page, the edit text field is found and the test passes.

Here are two videos uploaded with the problem:

  1. Without manually scrolling the screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wivOD0UjR3w
  2. Helping appium by manually scrolling the screen to the top: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wivOD0UjR3w

I am using Java client v2.1.0, Appium server V1.3.1 and also genymotion emulator running Android 4.3 API 18(also tried Android 4.4.4 API 19)

Does anyone have any clue here? :slight_smile: