Swipe functionality in Android

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Hi,

I am trying to swipe up the screen and select the last element available in the screen. For the same, here is my code snippet:

public class Exercise {

@Test
public void test() throws MalformedURLException {
	DesiredCapabilities cap= new DesiredCapabilities();
	cap.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.PLATFORM_NAME, MobilePlatform.ANDROID);
	cap.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_NAME, "Android Device");
	cap.setCapability(AndroidMobileCapabilityType.APP_PACKAGE, "com.app.package");
	cap.setCapability(AndroidMobileCapabilityType.APP_ACTIVITY, "com.app.activity");
	AndroidDriver driver = new AndroidDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"),cap);
	driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
	MobileElement songselection = (MobileElement) driver.findElementByAndroidUIAutomator("new UiSelector().text(\"songs)\")");
	songselection.swipe(SwipeElementDirection.UP, 2000);	
}

}

This script swipes the screen only to half. When I tried increased the value in the swipe function to 15000, screen scrolled up to the same half but with a varying speed.

Could you someone share your thoughts on this. Are there any new methods similar to ScrollTo available now.

2

Hi,

This issue got resolved by adding multiple Swipe() functions in the script. Is the right approach?

Thanks.

3

You can add a check using while loop. While you are on the top of the page. It will keep swiping until you reach there.

while( driver.findElement(By.id(“ID-FOR-TOP-ELEMENT”)) ) {
songselection.swipe(SwipeElementDirection.UP, 2000);
}

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Hi,

I am running into a edge case scenario where the top element is no longer visible in the screen after a swipe and the script fails. I am trying to swipe and select the last element in the screen. Please share your thoughts on the same.

Thanks.