How to use ignoreUnimportantViews method of io.appium.java_client.android.HasAndroidSettings class

I fixed this issue by updating my SDK Tools (25.x.x to 26.1.1) trought Android Studio. I hope this will help you.

Check it out, it will help you for page swiping (for Java client 5.0.3), it's working perfectly for me.

public static void swipeHorizontal(AppiumDriver driver, double startPercentage, double finalPercentage, double anchorPercentage, int duration) throws Exception {
        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(startPoint, anchor).waitAction(Duration.ofMillis(duration)).moveTo(endPoint, anchor).release().perform();
    }


    public static void swipeVertical(AppiumDriver driver, double startPercentage, double finalPercentage, double anchorPercentage, int duration) throws Exception {
        Dimension size = driver.manage().window().getSize();
        int anchor = (int) (size.width * anchorPercentage);
        int startPoint = (int) (size.height * startPercentage);
        int endPoint = (int) (size.height * finalPercentage);
        new TouchAction(driver).press(anchor, startPoint).waitAction(Duration.ofMillis(duration)).moveTo(anchor, endPoint).release().perform();
    }

Call them by:

For scroll up: swipeVertical((AppiumDriver)driver,0.9,0.1,0.5,3000);

For scroll down: swipeVertical((AppiumDriver)driver,0.1,0.9,0.5,3000);

For right to left: swipeHorizontal((AppiumDriver) driver,0.9,0.01,0.5,3000);

For left to right: swipeHorizontal((AppiumDriver) driver,0.01,0.9,0.5,3000);

I presume you have a JUnit test case with an @CucumberOptions annotation on it. If you have this, you should be able to make ignored tests fail the build by setting strict=true. e.g.

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(strict = true)
public class CucumberRunnerTest {
}

You should add app file name in desired capabilities like below:

capabilities.setCapability("app", "/system/app/SecCalculator2/SecCalculator2.apk"); 

Also you can skip to add "appPackage" and "appActivity" Appium automatically launch application which is mentioned in apk file.

Hope this will help you.

TestNG lets you pass parameters directly to your test methods in two different ways:

• With testng.xml
• With Data Providers

Consider this feature and maybe implement your own Data Provider which will provide separate configuration to your specific test method. In this way you even could prepare and start appium server with different configuration and capabilities for each test method

If your problem is about how to get through the location permission dialog, you can use GrantPermissionRule which allows you to grant permission in your tests.

@Rule public GrantPermissionRule permissionRule = GrantPermissionRule.grant(android.Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION);

App Permissions like Location, Storage, Camera etc can be accepted with the capabilities

capabilities.setCapability("autoGrantPermissions", "true");

This will allow all permission "Yes"

Please Note: ensure that "noReset" is "true" in the capabilities.

I was able to run parallel tests on separate real devices by starting several instances of appium using unique ports for each. Then when I would create my appium driver, I would pass the UDID of the device I wanted along with the port of the appium instance that I wanted to use for that specific device.

Here is my streamlined (only 1 device) python code for instantiating the appium driver:

from appium import webdriver

def CreateDriver(value):
    appiumHub = None
    port = None

    desired_caps = {}
    desired_caps['autoAcceptAlerts'] = True
    desired_caps['newCommandTimeout'] = '120'

    if value == 'iPhone6s':
        desired_caps['platformName'] = 'iOS' 
        desired_caps['deviceName'] = 'iPhone1' 
        desired_caps['platformVersion'] = '8.3'  

        desired_caps['udid'] = 'df33dh93827364kj3iujgr3g32t22hg878ww7878'

        port = 4723

    appiumHub = 'http://localhost:' + str(port) + '/wd/hub'
    desired_caps['bundleId'] = 'com.someplace.myapp'

    driver = webdriver.Remote(appiumHub, desired_caps)  

    return driver

I had to make copies of my test methods and put them in their own file then passed along what device to run using ddt:

@data('iPhone6s')
def test_P2A_Accept(self, value):        
    # Some test method

Then I would run each test module from a command file (MAC) to get them to run in parallel (and using py.test for better reporting):

results=$(date "+Results%Y%m%d-%H%M%S.html")

py.test /Users/jdoe/Documents/workspace/Unit\ Tests\ 2/UnitTests2Package/Python-Selenium/Tests_P2A.py --html=$results --self-contained-html

open $results

Hopefully, there will come a day when we can run multiple devices in parallel from the same test method, but until then this is the best I could come up with.

Seems like you are trying to use the method with a WebDriver instance.

The startActivity method is provided by an interface StartsActivity implemented by AndroidDriver only. So ideally this shall work :

((AndroidDriver) driver).startActivity(<appPackage>, <appActivity>);