he method not recognised i tried as best as i could
This was more promising :-
Dimension dim = driver.manage().window().getSize();
int height = dim.getHeight();
int width =dim.getWidth();
int x = width/2;
int start_y = (int)(height*0.80);
int end_y =(int)(height*0.10);
Dimension size = driver.manage().window().getSize();
int anchor = (int) (size.height * anchorPercentage);
int startPoint = (int) (size.width * startPercentage);
int endPoint = (int) (size.width * finalPercentage);
new TouchAction(driver).press(point(anchor, startPoint)).waitAction(waitOptions(ofMillis(2000)))
.moveTo(point(anchor, endPoint)).release().perform();
new TouchAction(driver).press(PointOption.point(startPoint, anchor)).waitAction(WaitOptions.waitOptions(Duration.ofMillis(2000))).moveTo(PointOption.point(endPoint, anchor)).release().perform();
BUT THE SWIPE FAILED 
[AndroidBootstrap] [BOOTSTRAP LOG] [debug] Returning result: {“status”:13,“value”:“The swipe did not complete successfully”}
[AndroidBootstrap] Received command result from bootstrap
[MJSONWP] Matched JSONWP error code 13 to UnknownError
[W3C (cf9e30f9)] Encountered internal error running command: UnknownError: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: The swipe did not complete successfully
[W3C (cf9e30f9)] at errorFromMJSONWPStatusCode (C:\Program Files\Appium\resources\app\node_modules\appium\node_modules\appium-base-driver\lib\protocol\errors.js:789:10)
[W3C (cf9e30f9)] at Socket.socketClient.on.data (C:\Program Files\Appium\resources\app\node_modules\appium\node_modules\appium-android-driver\lib\bootstrap.js:139:18)
[W3C (cf9e30f9)] at Socket.emit (events.js:182:13)
[W3C (cf9e30f9)] at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:279:12)
[W3C (cf9e30f9)] at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:260:13)
[W3C (cf9e30f9)] at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:219:10)
[W3C (cf9e30f9)] at TCP.onread (net.js:636:20)
[HTTP] <-- POST /wd/hub/session/cf9e30f9-187e-4e4a-8d9a-ee4028fbb09c/touch/perform 500 22 ms - 889
[HTTP]
I HEARD THAT IT WORKS WITH UIAUTOMATOR2 BUT when i tried this below the appium gui i had didn’t do anything it failed!!!
//cap.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.AUTOMATION_NAME, “UiAutomator2”);
anyone tell me how you can setup uiautomator2 ??
I tried the below and whilst it worked for the little appium app because text is defined it didn’t work at work just scrolled past the element anyone tell me how i can stop it scrolling past or just do so for one iteration?
driver.findElementByAndroidUIAutomator(“new UiScrollable(new UiSelector().scrollable(true).instance(0)).scrollIntoView(new UiSelector().textContains(”"+ str + “”).instance(0))");