How to swipe across screens for Android in Appium?

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I want to swipe across screens with Appium in Android. The swiping is across and I want to traverse each screen and perform actions on it. Any help would be appreciated!

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There are several ways to swipe in Appium. Here is the method we wrote in Ruby to make the call a bit simpler:

def swipe(start_x, start_y, end_x, end_y)
  action = Appium::TouchAction.new.press(x: start_x, y: start_y).wait(10).move_to(x:end_x, y:end_y).wait(50).release(x: end_x, y: end_y)
  action.perform
end

You’ll need to determine start and end values for x and y. In the example below, we want to swipe across a tab element in the Android settings.

  tab = appium.driver.find_element(:id, 'com.android.settings:id/tabs')
  dimensions = apm.appium_module.window_size
  max_x = dimensions.width - 1
  swipe(max_x, tab.location.y + 5, tab.location.x, tab.location.y + 5)
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Hi Will…thanks for your update on the same…but I need a Java code for the issue.

  1. Swiping from top to bottom (Tried the conventional x,y coordinate approach but dint work)
  2. Swiping across the screens.

Help is much appreciated.

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You can look at the source for the java implementation at https://github.com/appium/java-client/blob/master/src/main/java/io/appium/java_client/TouchAction.java. here are some of the pertinent lines from the Java TouchAction Header:

  • The flow is to chain individual touch actions into an entire gesture. e.g.
  • TouchAction action = new TouchAction(driver);
  • action.press(element).waitAction(300).moveTo(element1).release().perform();
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Thanks Will for the update on the answer. Things started to work with Scrollto and swipe functions with the new Java Client library

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Better approach, less verbose is the following

Appium::TouchAction.new.swipe({start_x: 0.8, start_y: 0.5, end_x:0.2, end_y: 0.5, duration: 500}).perform
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