I’ve been having less and less luck with iOS and Appium since Xcode 5. This week I’ve tried to get it running on an iPad running iOS 8.1 but that doesn’t work for me too. Another issue is element.displayed? lies so I now have 0 running tests and I’m getting pressure to switch tools. Instruments/UI-Automation doesn’t seem to work well so I’m looking at KIF now. It is sad, last year at this time I had iOS and Android tests running from the same source.
@0x1mason, I don’t think update to 1.3.2 can fix the problem because I got no luck even if I run the script directly on instrument ( using dragFromToForDuration function). But I’ll give it a try and will let you know the result
@brentlavelle, i am sorry to hear that you have to switch to KIF. I don’t know why you got trouble with element.displayed because I am using it and it works just fine. Anyways, good luck with your decision!
@tbao @brentlavelle mobile: swipe is deprecated in Appium, though it may work in some cases. Most of the clients now have swipe convenience methods.
Here’s Ruby swipe: http://www.rubydoc.info/github/appium/ruby_lib/Appium/TouchAction:swipe.
Also, there are a couple extra steps required for configuring iOS8.1 simulators. Please walk through the system setup here: https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/appium-setup/running-on-osx.md
I’ll have to look into isDisplayed. If you have a repro case, please post it on our GitHub site.
I’ve set up the 8.1 simulators as described but I did not know about http://www.rubydoc.info/github/appium/ruby_lib/Appium/TouchAction:swipe
I tried this but it isn’t working
def ios_swipe_left
action = Appium::TouchAction.new
action.swipe start_x: 200, end_x: 30, start_y: 50, end_y: 55, duration: 400
end
The elements that always .displayed? are in the slide out menu and apparently they are always out just covered by other screens when you seem to slide them out of site.
My biggest problem is that I can’t figure out how to get to elements. I have no problem doing this with Android using the uiautomationviewer and I can find_element by :id . This will be a problem with any framework I end up using for iOS, not being able to figure out what is in the dom and not able to use ids.
I found one issue at https://github.com/appium/ruby_lib/blob/master/lib/appium_lib/device/touch_actions.rb#L120 assumes I have a global $driver set. I tried to set this global to the variable I get from Selenium::WebDriver.for(:remote, :desired_capabilities => capabilities, :url => server_url) but touch_actions is not a method.
This applies to Android using Appium v1.3.2-beta2
In that version the following execute_script no longer works so I need the downgrade appium the server
driver.execute_script 'mobile: swipe', startX: 0.9, startY: 0.3, endX: 0.1, endY: 0.27, duration: 0.5
This execute script now throws
Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError: Not yet implemented. Please help us: http://appium.io/get-involved.html@bootstraponline Any thoughts on this?
‘mobile: swipe’ is deprecated, but bootstraponline may have some info on the ruby part.
I tried this but it isn’t working
Can you try setting the duration to 500? I have a vague memory of 500ms being the min allowed.
Why are we still supporting mobile methods? I’m pretty sure TouchActions are the desired approach.
If you have a driver using ruby_lib, then the global driver will be set by default. The tests that were pointed out work.
You need to use the appium ruby console. It’s very easy to test out the touch actions such as swipe in a REPL. The page command will list the elements.
I recommend reading the bootcamp guide.
http://sauceio.com/index.php/tag/appium-bootcamp/
@0x1mason, I updated to Appium 1.3.3 and I still cannot use swipe gesture.
Should the problem be the same as https://github.com/appium/appium/pull/1910? I know this was for ios7 but I am not sure if it is fixed for ios8
This helps. I was still doing this:
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:remote, :desired_capabilities => capabilities, :url => 'http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub')
instead of
driver = Appium::Driver.new something
I’ll try that out tomorrow.
No dice, Here is the code, the button press happens but the gesture doesn’t. I’ve tried on a number of os versions an the 5s and 6 simulators
require 'appium_lib'
capabilities = {
deviceName: 'iPhone 5s',
platformVersion: '7.1',
app: '/Users/blavelle/homeaway-stage-sim.app',
platformName: :ios,
newCommandTimeout: 0,
}
appium = Appium::Driver.new(caps: capabilities)
driver = appium.start_driver
driver.find_element(:name, 'welcome_travelerButton').click
appium.swipe(start_x: 300, end_x: 30, start_y: 50, end_y: 55, duration: 900).perform
appium.swipe(start_x: 0.95, end_x: 0.1, start_y: 0.2, end_y: 0.22, duration: 700).perform
It takes a little while for the 2 swipe attempts to not swipe the screen. I noticed that if I perform the action while the swipes are going on I’ll see something happen but not what I want to happen.
Hi Friends, Happy to see new appium version 1.3.4, So I run few testing on new appium version.
Bugs found : ‘Swipe’ gesture does not work on iOS 8.1 And Xcode 6.1.
Methods used
appium.swipe :start_x => 97, :start_y => 521, :end_x => 229, :end_y => 521, :touchCount => 1, :duration => 500
mobile.swipe :start_x => 97, :start_y => 521, :end_x => 229, :end_y => 521, :touchCount => 1, :duration => 500
driver.swipe :start_x => 97, :start_y => 521, :end_x => 229, :end_y => 521, :touchCount => 1, :duration => 500
Apple broke gestures on the iOS simulator a long time ago and never fixed them. It’s not specific to appium.
Hi Swipe also dosent work for me any idea when this will be fixd
Apple broke this about a year ago for the simulators, I would not wait for them to fix this.
I’ve heard that this works for real devices but I’ve been unable to make it work.
I don’t have any problem using swipe with real ios7 devices.
either with the deprecated execute_script ‘mobile: swipe’,… or with TouchAction
def swipe_left
action = Appium::TouchAction.new
action.swipe start_x: 300, end_x: 75, start_y: 500, end_y: 500, duration: 800
action.perform
end
this is working perfectly fine in iOS
@deepukjayan Does this work on simulator or on real device? I have never been able to get the swipe gesture working on simulator and a lot of folks here are facing the same issue