IN DEVELOPMENT
- add Tapster support for some more touch methods
- fix for safari and webview issues for 9.2
- fix for safari and webview issues in iOS9+
- support for iOS9.2
- fix for webview, resolving context issues in iOS9+
- upgrade to Selendroid 0.17.0.
- Setting appium-chromedriver version to 2.3.2 as it is stable on Node version 0.10.32
- support for iOS9.1
- fix for iOS simulator with similar device names on Xcode 7
- fix to idevicelog (real device) to record logs only for device under test
- fix for iOS simulator selector for Xcode 7
- fix for selecting default device for iOS9
- fixed bug in a config file accidentally published in version 1.4.9
- support for iOS9 and xcode 7
- at this point instruments-without-delay is not supported for xcode-7
- fix for Windows users! Now the system architecture is properly detected, npm installs should work again
- fix for an issue in responding to
/statusapi endpoint, this is used heavily by Selenium grid
- fix for problem in downstream jsonwp-proxy; now sessionId returned is replaced with sessionId present in url(original sessionId). Fixed this in appium-jsonwp-proxy 1.2.3
- this is a republish because of a misconfiguration before 1.4.5 got published resulting in a server startup failure
- fix problem with npm shrinkwrap that caused Appium not to start
- fix a problem in downstream appium-chromedriver; no longer rely on async methods returning objects of the Promise type. This was causing undefined errors when running Chromedriver/hybrid tests.
- update the appium-instruments dependency with working subdeps
- update ES6-based dependencies which got bit by a breaking Regenerator change
- keep track of the correct app ID for Safari webviews (fixes problems in finding the webview for iOS)
- fix sendKeys and clear for Samsung devices
- have the appium-chromedriver manage the chromedriver binary download/install
- fix for broken
./reset.sh --devdue broken UICatalog build package in sample-code submodule - fix for issues with cookie encoding
- updated sample code
- updated documentation
- updated test suite
- deprecate node 0.10
- support for iOS 8.3
- deprecate iOS 6.1 and iOS 7.0 (support will be removed soon, probably 1.5)
- deprecate Xcodes less than 6.3 (moving to support of latest versions only, and Xcode 6.3+ together allows automation of all supported iOS versions). The only exception to this is the combination of Xcode 6.0.1 + iOS 8.0.
- fix for issues relating to finding xcode folder and Info.plist
- new sever flag
--instruments <path>to specify custom path to instruments commandLine tool - fix for getOrientation
- fix for iOS crash log retrieval
- fix for killing chromedriver on windows
- fix for parsing java version correctly
- support for searching elements by id without passing package name
- requesting capabilities from server now returns correct deviceName and platformVersion for Android
- fix for scrollTo
- new capability
disableAndroidWatchers - deprecated capability
stopAppOnReset - new capability
dontStopAppOnReset - fix a crash possibly encountered during extracting app strings
- new server argument
suppress-adb-kill-server - fix issue with
keys(); now it correctly targets currently-focused element
- Support for installApp, isAppInstalled and removeApp
- Chormedriver version updated to 2.15
- fix for driver.quit()
- use the correct ADB path already identified by Appium
- fix for handling real device object
- fix for safariAllowPopups for iOS 8.x
- reduce logging in remote debugger for real devices, and don't use console.log
- fix issues with SafariLauncher on real devices
- fix execute_async so that it now works at all
- fix failure to remap session id in proxied responses
- fix intermittent failure to find Xcode
- fix XPath regression where Appium failed to recognize non-ASCII characters
- fix regression where Appium failed to set ADB's path during Chromedriver tests
- fix for a bug when driver.get() never returns for page with alert.
- iOS 8.2 support.
- fixed safari startup crashes.
- ensure Appium drops into the right continuation cb when selecting hybrid contexts.
- now finds the location of adb earlier.
- ensure encoding stream in Bootstrap.jar closes correctly.
- add workaround for issue where UiAUtomator fails to find visible elements.
- fixed undefined member error for the release object.
- add a delete key test.
- upgrade to Selendroid 0.13.0.
- better handling of session closing.
- tmp dir customization via env variable.
- app/browserName error message fix.
- functional test fixes.
- allow location services in zip file.
- ensure a string is returned from iOS getText.
- simpler device type detection logic.
- screenshotWaitTimeout cap
- added ios-webkit-debug-proxy launcher to go round libidevice 8.1 bugs
- waitForAppScript capability.
- syslog fix
- getStrings refactoring
- simulator folder fix
- doctor support for OSX 10.10.1
- exec refactoring.
- uses for latest apktool (2.0.0-RC2) when Java 7 is detected.
- ADB.jars refactored into instance property.
- smart keyboard closing fix.
- added support for getting the resourceId attribute of an element.
- clear text fix for large centered edit fields.
- better handling of errors in clear text.
- ensure an already-running Android device's language and country settings are correct.
- fixed unknown server-side error is thrown when the XPath expression doesn't match any nodes.
- better error handling is SetText
- edit + clear fields with hint text fix.
- make hideKeyboard do nothing when keyboard is present but not closable (has no UI).
- upgrade to Selendroid 0.12.0.
- throws when getting a redirect from Selendroid.
- added hideKeyboard support.
- uses for latest apktool (2.0.0-RC2) when Java 7 is detected.
- fix several internal Appium tests
- add a sendKeyStrategy capability to allow testers to enable less reliable, but faster sendKey method
- add handling for safeRimRafSync ENOENT mesages
- clean up sessions when session clobbering enabled
- fix stripping log colors on --stripColors
- create system logs file before tailing it
- fix issue where driver.current_context is
nullfor native app context - fix bug that prevents closing tabs in Safari
- fix log capture when Appium starts a simulator for the first time
- add OSX 10.10 and iOS8 support for Appium Doctor
- fix inability to open Safari on a real device
- fix arg and cap parsing when passing arguments to adb
- add support for passing elements as targets for swipe actions
- correctly calculate relative position of swipe targets
- ensure ChromeDriver instances are properly terminated
- fix appPackage parsing error with overlapping namespaces
- fix TouchAction release bug when released element is not valid
- ensure
logcatcorrectly appended to command string
- add comment to caps page, and to running tests page, to note the need for a period before an activity
- fixed a bug where appium could hang if the 'full-reset' and 'keepKeychain' capabilities were both used on ios8.1
- default context now set to
NATIVE_APPinstead of being null
- fix bugs which arise from spaces in the path to
adbtool - fix detection of whether the screen is locked
- fix an error with running remote apk's on Windows
- allow
full-resetdesired capability to work alongsidelanguage/localedesired capabilities
- add iOS 8 support
- add support for launching an app on the sim just by bundleId (iOS8 only)
- ensure screenshot process uses dir specified in --tmp
- add --isolate-sim-device which removes all other xcode 6 simulators before running test (might be necessary for some platforms)
- update mobile safari temp app to include platformVersion so we don't get strange version conflicts
- reset push notification privacy settings in between sessions
- fix the flakiness of getting a list of available devices
- auto-refresh Safari if no webviews are found
- rewrite cookie handling code to use code derived from jQuery instead of mozilla docCookie
- force device string when device name starts with "="
- fix a security hole in pullFile() where users could download files on the machine hosting appium
- fix Chromedriver to work with newer versions
- Chromedriver will work if adb is not running on default port
- speed up clearing text fields when there is hint text
- fix sendKeys() in CHROMIUM context
- fix getContexts()
- add objective-c examples
- update appium-instruments with logging fixes
- add iOS 8 support
- add support for launching an app on the sim just by bundleId (iOS8 only)
- ensure screenshot process uses dir specified in --tmp
- add --isolate-sim-device which removes all other xcode 6 simulators before running test (might be necessary for some platforms)
- update mobile safari temp app to include platformVersion so we don't get strange version conflicts
- reset push notification privacy settings in between sessions
- add objective-c examples
- update appium-instruments with logging fixes
- update appium-instruments with getDevices stalling fix
- give better error for UiScrollable parse exception
- fix UiSelector instance in finds
- use last coordinates for touch release
- add a settings api (used currently only for Android xpath compression)
- add configurable loglevels for different transports
- allow appium to be run under sudo if the sudo user owns the appium files
- fix crash while recovering from instruments failure
- add ability to launch app by 'bundleId' cap alone (no 'app' cap)
- misc groundwork for iOS8
- fix bug that prevented scrolling collectionViews
- more crash recovery bugfixes
- use 'click' atom in webviews, 'tap' sent two clicks
- fix bug where we'd try to kill a null logging proc and crash
- enable performance logs for webviews
- allow automation of native frame in safari (actually works on 7.1!)
- fix uiautomation predicate search bug
- fix 'spawn ENOENT' bug caused by a missing deviceconsole binary
- fix autoAcceptAlert bug
- fix certain findElement crashes
- fix hideKeyboard bugs
- fix issue with unzipping apk
- add ability to launch arbitrary apps/activities mid-session
- add lock() method to lock screen
- add unlock() method to unlock screen
- fix bug where app would be classified incorrectly as not installed
- add settings api member for setting layout hierarchy compression
- fix crash when touch actions attempted on webviews
- undo setText changes and simply handle hint text fields better
- fix --selendroid-quick reset.sh option
- fix unicode keyboard issues
- fix bug in getting window_handles
- fix bug that would prevent launching an app with spaces in its apk path
- add doc for running on multiple devices simultaneously
- move sample code and sample apps out of the main appium repo
- remove http request size limit
- check to make sure an element is not UIAElementNil before returning it
- add a configurable key delay to help with keyboard smudging
- fix issue with deleting cookies in mobile safari
- correct sendKeys behavior not to clear text before sending keys
- remove 'iwebview' support, since automating safari works
- fix bug where apostraphes in accessibility ids caused elements not to be found
- use deviceconsole instead of idevicesyslog to capture ios logs
- fix bug where automating safari on a real device would hang forever and never start a session
- fix bug where getting text() on a textfield would return its label instead of its value
- cache Chromedriver webview objects so we don't need to start a new Chromedriver on every context switch
- correct sendKeys behavior not to clear text before sending keys
- allow chromeOptions cap object to be passed to chromedriver
- download all chromedriver architectures for linux (32 and 64 bit)
- make sure we stop adb logcat logging when ending a chrome session so we don't leak processes
- add noSign capability to skip the apk resigning process
- add setText method that will clear a text field before adding text; this is primarily useful for textfields with hint text where clear() does not work in general
- move xpath parsing into the android bootstrap, for fewer bugs and greater reliability. NOTE: this could be a breaking change depending on the kind of xpath selectors you are using
- clean android XML tags of invalid characters like '$'
- fix bug where '&' would be sent into a textfield as '&-'
- add isLocked method to determine whether screen is locked
- add ability to automate the native portion of the Chrome/Browser apps
- make sure the contact manager test app has the required internet permissions
- fix up sample code
- bring back support for autoLaunch=false case
- reset commandTimeout during implicit wait cycles
- remove deprecated window_handles methods
- add --local-timezone flag that uses timezone for timestamps
- add a configurable --callback-address and --callback-port for execute_async
- update setLocation method to use correct spec params for geolocation
- add networkConnection to server capabilities so clients can use the API
- if boolean cap values are sent in as strings, convert them to boolean
- fix bug where we waited for safari7 dirs when we weren't on ios7.x
- improve deviceName flexibility and device recognition
- make sure instruments and uiauto know about the tmp dir flag
- fix install/uninstall logic for real ios device
- fix bug with parsing of binary vs XML plists
- fix handling of multiple taps
- clean up iOS simulator log
- fix hang when ending a real safari session
- implement pushFile for ios
- allow .ipa in the list of downloadable app types
- retry getting screenshot if it fails
- fix JavaScript error when using sendKeys
- fix error where testsuite would kill appium in its ios reset cycle
- fix error in getting localized strings
- fix handling of IME activation
- fix chromedriver kill logic
- support API level 10 style focused activity strings
- add lots of fallback strategies for element.clear()
- update api level dependency for the project to 19
- add fallback strategies for finding app activity from AndroidManifest
- fix bug with xpath searches for //*
- fix xpath search bugs, now we use UiAutomator's instance() which is more reliable
- fix grunt-helpers bug when building appium on windows
- retry all adb commands to make all adb commands less flakey
- upgrade chromedriver to 2.10
- fix for setValue and getContexts methods, they were not using a custom selendroid port if active
- selendroid now requires internet permission in apps; fail if it's not present
- add custom keystore support
- upgrade selendroid to 0.11.0
- migrated to express 4 for the webserver
- allow setting tmp dir with --tmp flag
- upgrade many submodules including wd
- add --strict-caps mode which will cause sessions to fail which send in bad or unknown caps
- add error handling for invalid multi-pointer gestures
- add autoWebview capability to automatically get into a webview context of a hybrid app
- remove deprecated -real xpath locator strategy
- allow bypassing appium's sudo checks
- add generic crash handler
- many documentation and sample code updates
- prevent log lines without dates from being filetered out
- add keepAppToRetainPrefs cap to avoid deleting location plists
- check for accessibility id matching selector then fall back to string match
- add flag for specifying where in .app hierarchy Localizable.strings is
- use a dynamic bootstrap in appium-uiauto
- upgrade mechanic
- implement pullFolder to get an entire folder from the sim
- make sure launchAndKill can wait for specified directories before killing sim
- get rid of ForceQuitInstruments
- update hideKeyboard to take various possible strategies
- fix launchAndKill to wait for safari-specific directories
- make sure all pageload timeouts are cleared and called only once
- disable ios grace delay
- don't return duplicate elements
- renamed keyevent to press_keycode and long_press_keycode
- add dedupe to complex_find
- fix activity-finding logic
- fix error handling in installApp
- extract adb code into its own package, appium-adb
- add support for opening notifications
- add automation support for embedded chromium
- fix pushStrings to work with 'app' as package
- fix id serach
- cause appium to fail if we can't parse package/activity
- add package name to android webview context
- make sure UNZIP env var doesn't confuse our internal unzip calls
- add appIntent etc capabilities so app can be launched with a certain intent
- add IME methods, and an appium-specific IME that is automatically installed
- add unicodeKeyboard capability which allows sending unicode text
- fix installApp, prevent a server crash
- faster selendroid installer
- less buggy xcode locator strategy for iOS and Android
- note that for Android this might cause previous xpath selectors not to work, since we now always set compressed hierarchy when getting the xml dump used for xpath
- fix defaults for swipe duration
- add fixes for context switching
- add optional argument 'language' to getStrings
- update docs and code samples (including adding perl code samples)
- continue work on appium CI
- make sure we can't close already ended sessions
- upgrade all node deps besides express
- add
-ios uiautomationstrategy doc
- allow for encoding of non-ASCII text
- clearer activity error messages
- add language and country support
- extract strings from apk corresponding to device language instead of default to be used with ID locator strategy
- update complex find with new uiautomator constants
- upgrade Chromedriver to 2.10
- allow automation of Chrome Beta with browserName:
ChromeBeta
- update selendroid to 0.10.0
- add getStrings method
- update python samples to use 1.0 style
- don't convert 'proxy' or 'launchTimeout' caps into strings
- make sure commit hooks use local grunt and mocha
- update some ruby samples to use 1.0 style
- add more 1.0 docs and sample code
- fix mobile safari native tap on android by offsetting tap position by 40px
- go back to using unpatched UICatalog
- fix autoAcceptAlerts
- allow multiple calls to /contexts
- update appium-instruments with fix that would prevent the basic 'iPhone Simulator' device from launching correctly
- fix gesture timing so it doesn't interpret ms as seconds
- ensure selendroid isn't proxied appium endpoint commands
- extensive docs updates (make it ready for the new Slate docs)
- decode sequence of actions to native "swipe" method
- fix valid platform error message
- update WD dep
- fix proxying when session id is null
- allow spaces in appium folder name in reset.sh
- get rid of tag name loc strat in favor of class name
- allow for different input sets to mobile: find
- fix apk signing with custom keystore
- allow MultiActions without an element
- move chrome tests into their own emulator type
- fix async bug in getting xml dump
- use async.queue to ensure synchronicity of commands
- improve DumpWindowHierarchy so xpath queries don't crash
- fix broken log options: --log, --log-no-colors, and --log-timestamp
- update docs to work with Jekyll
- change 'launch' desired cap to 'autoLaunch', same defaults
- fix installApp, launchApp, closeApp, removeApp to use correct app path
- fix bug in action handling for python client
- remove deprecated window handle support for native clients (in favor of contexts)
- remove deprecated old xpath support and promote the '-real xpath' strategy to the default
- remove deprecated json page source in favor of xml
- remove deprecated mobile methods: location, fireEvent, waitForPageLoad, findElementNameContains, localScreenshot, getCommandTimeout, findAndAct
- rewrite caps.md doc to use new 1.0 style caps
- remove deprecated --merciful and --device-port flags (add --force-quit-instruments flag instead of -m)
- lots of docs reorganization and prep for new publishing method
- fix valid platform list
- update npm deps to latest (except for express)
- remove all deprecated "mobile: xxx" commands, except for gestures for now
- use new native methods from WD in testsuite
- fix bug where iOS < 7.1 would try to ask instruments for available devices
- loosen up sudo check for authorize_ios so it can run without issue under sudo
- rename
nonSyntheticWebClickcap tonativeWebTap, and turn it off by default
- fix bug with XML page source where it wouldn't create the dump file correctly
- change caps with hyphens (-) like "app-package" to be camelCased like the rest of Appium caps, e.g., "appPackage"
- fix bug with custom keystore apk signing
- allow multi actions without an element
- fix command timeout bug
Important: This is the Appium 1.0 feature-complete pre-release. Please the discussion group for more context and details about this release and where Appium is headed in the near future.
- disallow use of appium under sudo (except for authorize_ios)
- don't autopopulate node config host (so appium url can be set in nodeconfig)
- many build and test tweaks and fixes to improve build stability
- don't link commit hooks if we're not in a git repo
- add "accessibility id" locator strategy
- get rid of a bunch of unused grunt commands
- deprecate use of JSON page source (XML will be the standard)
- simplify reset strategy and make reset strategies available through caps. There's now the default (fastReset), fullReset, and noReset.
- deprecate "tag name" locator strategy
- add real xpath support (for now under the "-real xpath" locator strategy)
- deprecate old xpath strategy
- a lot of work on appium CI
- further update new capability handling and device selection; use only the new caps internally
- implement TouchAction and MultiTouch APIs
- migrate all "mobile: " methods to their own REST endpoints; they are now deprecated
- don't allow users to send in bad platformNames; fail with an error instead
- allow app paths relative to appium root
- add command-line flags corresponding to the new desired capabilities
- add "-ios uiautomation" locator strategy
- make backup path for built-in apps in ios 7.0 configurable
- only count one out of the two textfields which compose an ios 7.1 textfield
- introduce a distinction between global and post-launch timeouts for instruments, to fine-tune flake management
- rewrite screenshot logic
- modify "mobile: scroll" to take an element argument
- fix bug where bundleID would be improperly lowercased
- allow changing of remote debugger ports with env variable
- fix bug in device launching logic that would try to launch an invalid device as the default
- add "mobile: pullFile" support for retrieving files from the sim folders
- update fruitstrap to a version which doesn't segfault for Japanese
- make sure app is signed before getting MD5 hash for use in on-device install
- ensure that the app is always force-stopped before uninstalling the APK
- add "-android uiautomator" locator strategy
- fix bug involving storing android binary paths incorrectly
- add avdLaunchTimeout and avdReadyTimeout caps to fine-tune these timeouts
- retry launching AVD once if it never connects to adb
- if installing a remote apk fails, uninstall/rm, then retry
- disallow use of Appium in sudo mode
- ensure publishes happen with a version of Node which doesn't generate shasum errors in NPM
- update Selendroid to 0.9.0
- fix "mobile: reset"
- use the new Context API (from the spec draft) for switching back and forth between webviews. The window handles strategy will be deprecated in 1.0
- update Wd.js to use a version with context support
- sanitize desired caps so they are always a manageable type
- allow testing of iOS7.1 in Appium's testsuite/test.sh
- don't error out of pref path finding too soon if there are multiple dirs
- fix "mobile: push"
- fix fastReset going undefined between sessions
- add --avd-args server param to pass args to avd on boot
- various fixes for starting avds, including allowing multiple emulators to be running
- fix getElement() to set isElement to false instead of throwing
- fix touch actions by fixing leaking state across executions
- remove fastClear and run
pm clearon fastReset
- add new desired capabilities handling to conform to the Selenium 3 spec. Use of old desired capabilities will now be deprecated. See the spec draft for more information
- fix process detection
- make sure temp dir exists before writing zipaligned apk to it
This is simply a release to make Appium downloadable on npm.
- move toward CI: build appium and run reset.sh on Travis
- pass quiet flag to fruitstrap when in quiet mode
- update appium-instruments (which fixes retry behavior)
- fix uninstall detection
- fix maxBuffer error in installApp command
- rearchitect device extraction and configuration from args/caps, and add lots of unit tests
- show non-default server params in server log for easier debugging
- add --command-timeout as a server arg
- don't ever use sudo to install npm submodules
- ensure appium's CWD is always the appium dir
- clear out commandTimeout between sessions, so subsequent sessions don't count the session launching time as command time
- set npm submodules to track published branches
- relax requirements for unpacking zipfiles and finding app names
- handle both binary and xml plists when changing ios settings plists
- break out appium-instruments into its own npm package
- fix bug where command line --force-iphone or --force-ipad wouldn't set device. This should fix issues with Appium.app
- add --keep-keychains server arg / keepKeychains desired cap in order to disallow deletion of Keychains dir
- bring reset behavior back to what it was before location services / settings updates, so that with the default reset, most directories are still cleared out
- use actual current ios sdk in reset.sh
- create plist basedirs if they don't exist
- add processArguments cap to pass args to AUT
- make --merciful the default
- require bundleId when using location services caps
- update UICatalog test app for 7.1
- fix duplicate textfield issue in iOS 7.1
- use new instruments
- wparam in iOS 7.1 to set device type - add location and contact alert request buttons to TestApp
- update initial webview navigation logic to work on 7.1
- if we start with a real webview, don't try to nav to webview through favs
- added support for 'direction' in scrollTo
- fix source command
- add longClick by position and duration
- fix reset.bat issues on Windows
- updated Windows installation instructions
- added --udid flag to reset.sh/bat, so it can uninstall from specific devices
- added support for touch{Down|Up|Move}
- add "mobile: push" and "mobile: pull" commands to send files to/from device
- ensure apks are always run through zipalign
- parse launch package and activity from apk, so that
app-packageandapp-activitycaps are no longer required - use better version of
isAppInstalled
- update bundled chromedriver to 2.9
- add enablePerformanceLogging cap
- auto-configure the host and port for nodes in an appium grid
- fix usage of temp folders on windows/linux
- allow better usage of reset.sh in windows git-bash
- add linking of pre-commit hook in reset.sh so everyone runs it
- fix regression where special keys wouldn't be sent
- add
mobile: scrollwith direction: up/down/left/right to scroll views - display correct error when app install/uninstall fails on real device
- update TestApp to show location services enabled status
- add
locationServicesAuthorizedcap - add
locationServicesEnabledcap - add
safariIgnoreFraudWarningcap - add
safariAllowPopupscap - update uiauto js to retrieve references to app/windows dynamically every time
- wait longer for webviews to appear in ios7
- return latest window with getWindowHandles()
- move hardcoded atoms out of appium into its own npm module which builds them
- add
nonSyntheticWebClickcap to use atoms for click in ios7
- fix installing unlock app on windows paths with spaces
- add test coverage mechanism
- don't fail the test if we can't find strings.xml in an apk
- add hybrid support for webviews in 4.4+ apps
- fix
mobile: launchApp
- bundle chromedriver into appium itself, remove system dependency
- remove requirement to manually update selendroid test apk path in test code
- update selendroid (with maven 3.1.1 requirement)
- fix for issue where logger would log colors even when asked not to
- stricter jshint rules enforceable from editor
- reformat/restructure test suite
- handle previously-unhandled errors when using spawn()
- fix startup bug (status object being taken as session id)
- clear sessionOverride instance var when cleaning up session
- fix regression where appium git revision wasn't shown in server output
- various testsuite tweaks/fixes
- don't wait 30s for instruments to terminate
- use SIGKILL for instruments again
- allow ios logs to be not found without crashing appium
- allow automation of settings app via 'app: settings' cap
- don't crash if IDevice init fails (when requesting real device)
- don't try to remove app if it's not on the device
- escape single quotes for id search
- lint the uiauto js code
- allow accented characters in send_keys()
- delete the entire sim folder when using --full-reset (before & after)
- allow safari to pre-launch
- don't tap apple button to get into webview on real device safari
- don't use synthetic click on real device safari
- fix undefined window handle bug
- fix safariLauncher crashes
- add new mobile methods: toggleData, toggleFlightMode, toggleWifi, toggleLocationServices
- convert uiautomator error stream to string
- use a better method for finding build-tools and platform-tools dirs
- implement new version of longClick
- add
mobile: findexample - return element's classname by selenium
tag_namemethod/property - add
app-wait-packagedesired cap, to be used in concert withapp-wait-activity
- fix unlock errors
- fix port-in-use bug which prevented automation of multiple chromes on multiple emulators
- upgrade to 0.8.0
- fix bug that prevented appium from starting in ios
- fix bug that prevented appium from pre-launching without specified device
- when alert title is null, return text instead
- add framework for setting iOS and app preferences via plists
- add
enableLocationServicesdesired cap for enabling/disabling location services on the simulator
- fix fast reset/clear logic to not fail when remote apk doesn't exist
- actually wait for app-wait-activity instead of app-activity
- add ability to set launch timeout from command line
- require 'device' cap and fail without it
- bring back appium shell
- add new node examples
- add troubleshooting docs in Chinese
- fix app download suffix issue
- major refactor of test code
- delete cache data for all versions of sim
- fix sporadic DOM corruption issue
- make reset.sh more Xcode 4.6 friendly
- add flag to show simulator logs in-line with appium logs
- add cap for automatically accepting photo permission alerts
- update appium doctor to read new auth db value
- keep track of ios crash logs and make available through selenium interface
- cleanup app state pre-test and post-test
- fix installing/removing .app (instead of .ipa)
- escalate to SIGKILL if instruments doesn't respond to SIGTERM
- add cap for using native instruments lib
- return accessibility hint as 'hint' attribute
- fix AVD startup bug
- better error handling in element finding code
- update ApiDemos app with webview
- support doing web testing against stock browser on 4.4
- increase support of android 4.4 toolchain
- fix multiple device issue
- implement
mobile: backgroundfor android/selendroid - fix custom keystore unzip call stack issue
- add ability to deal with a different kind of session redirect
- kill chromedriver before starting it up again to clear out ports
- re-instate closeApp and removeApp
- fix issue where selendroid would crash based on activity mangling, resulting in a mysterious connection reset error
- upgrade to 0.7.0
- show selendroid logs in appium output
- add sauce reporting to ruby example
- normalize all ruby examples
- don't allow linux platforms to run ios doctor checks
- allow building of single platforms in reset.sh (don't delete other platforms)
- fix bug with --show-config & npm
- removed some unused tests
- remove retry support from appium test harness
- catch grid syntaxerror issue
- make sure gappium tests actually get run
- update docs for setting up ios-webkit-debug-proxy
- fix authorize_ios
- make sure setLocale doesn't run on real devices
- give webviews a bit of time to show up before we say they aren't there
- fix the auth db doctor check to work for 10.7
- when launching simulator without instruments, wait for sim logs
- kill zombie sim daemon launchers
- update mobile: reset
- automatically retry launching instruments if it flakes out. The number of
retries can be set with
-r Nor--backend-retries N, whereNis the number of retries, including 0. - add support for automating real Safari (and other built-in apps) in iOS7
- remove support for using iwebview as a Safari replacement
- when running mobile safari tests, automatically detect ios version
- update i-w-d for compatibility with xcode 5.1 / ios 7.1
- remove dependency on grep for real devices
- add 19.0.0 to possible build paths
- add tests for apk downloading and fix apk downloading issue
- check for API level >= 17 for uiautomator and fail sooner if not
- fix issue where calculating md5 of app would use too much memory, for large apps
- fix bug with checking whether app already existed on device
- give useful error message if user tries to run a uiautomator-based "mobile: " command in selendroid
- update selendroid
- reset command timeout during mobile: reset
- fixes for strategy validation ('dynamic' and 'class name' are valid)
- add --show-config flag to dump appium config and exit
- add option to set newCommandTimeout to 0 or false to disable it entirely rather than working around it by setting a high value
- refactor server/main.js -- things were getting ugly
- fix issue where ForceQuitUnresponsiveApps would try to run even on non-Mac systems
- change default device for iOS 6 to "iPhone" (non-retina)
- change Xcode 5.0.1 warning message to indicate an upgrade is possible now
- add --default-device flag to allow instruments to launch the sim like it used to
- get rid of deprecated authorization strategy code
- include ForceQuitUnresponsiveApps output in appium log
- add --merciful (-m) flag to avoid running ForceQuitUnresponsiveApps. Show Instruments a bit of mercy...or don't.
- upgrade Selendroid to 0.7.0
- None (npm fix release)
- None (npm fix release)
- add appium doctor for checking system config issues that prevent appium
from working properly. Run with
node bin/appium-doctor.js, orappium-doctorif installed via NPM, or via the GUI in Appium.app - fail sooner if user passes in bad locator strategy
- fix app extracting logic
- fix locale settings logic
- fix 64-bit device string
- fail with a nicer message if xcrun can't find instruments
- allow iwebview tests to automate https sites
- kill simulators before launching new ones
- automatically force quit unresponsive instruments processes
- make sure there's no color in console when --log-no-colors is used
- add more chinese docs
- allow periods in xpath node names
- update style guide
- bring all NPM dependencies up to date
- mobile web: doc updates
- mobile web: make sure window.close() works on real devices
- mobile web: connect to most recent webview instead of first
- allow uiauto to get path to node binary from
node_binkey in .appiumconfig - fix automatic UDID detection
- improve webviewapp to be a safari replacement; can now be used for mobile
web automation using
app: iwebview - use
deviceNamecap to select specific iOS device - mobile web: automatically accept popup window alerts
- give informative error message if ideviceinstaller isn't present
- add a wait after flick calls so client doesn't regain control before flick has finished
- make sure chrome tests don't require package/activity
- make sure we force-stop apps before starting them
- fix issue with checking for package/activity for chrome
- make sure to kill any running uiautomator processes before test
- add
fastCleardesired cap, default true. If false, uses reinstall instead ofpm clearto reset an app - anytime we call
dumpsys windowswhen checking for screen lock, dump output to $APPIUM_HOME/.dumpsys.log so we can learn more about error cases
- add ruby scrollTo example
- fix dismissAlert / acceptAlert on ios7
- make instruments logging quiet by default (put verbose=true in ~/.instruments.conf to re-enable)
- fix safarilauncher shutdown issue
- add tests for setting slider values
- set ios sim language using desired caps
- add more error handling in instruments_client
- fix issue with adb path and quote truncation
- fail with a nice message if app activity/package are not sent in
- fix keyevent
- add command timeout tests
- remove wiki
- various doc updates
- reset command timeout for proxied devices (incl selendroid)
- translate docs to Chinese
- make desired capabilities returned by /session/:id non-hard-coded
- add support for sim and devices for safari launcher
- major refactor of ios startup cascade
- fix tracetemplate detection logic
- add ability to select code-signing identity for safari launcher
- use securitydb for authorization on 10.9
- expose 'syslog' logs through selenium log interface
- various control flow/subprocess fixes
- don't uninstall app when --no-reset is used
- update selendroid version
- fix bug where running
appiumafter installing via npm would error out because the logger was not initialized correctly - fix bug in reset.sh where setting --real-safari would cause android et al not to build
- fix launch timeout bug
- update travis CI to use newer version of node
- remove .appiumconfig before running reset.sh
- update reset.sh to build safarilauncher for real devices only when passing in the --real-safari flag
- made test.sh sh-compatible
- update all example code to use correct desired capabilities
- don't set content-length header for http POSTS with no body
- add more desired caps to docs
- expand on android setup for mac osx in docs
- remove multiple device handling code--appium just does one device at a time per server
- handle command timeouts centrally rather than per-device
- add --log-timestamp and --log-no-colors options to server
- fix sim control authorization on mavericks
- copy instead of symlink xpath/status into uiauto for non-breaking npm install
- fix cookie methods error case in mobile safari
- fail with an error message if user is on xcode 5.0.1 since it comes with a broken instruments binary
- don't uninstall app on fast reset
- fix crash that occurred when no devices were connected
- fix unlock logic and change order of regex search
- correctly handle responses for element{Displayed|Enabled|Selected}
- refactor adb/android/uiautomator startup/shutdown logic to make callback-based
- kill uiautomator if the startup cascade for android fails, so it doesn't zombify
- make tempdirs uniquely named
- massive code reorganization
- retry getting a session in testsuite to avoid flaky fails
- update ios alert handling
- use safariLauncher without 20/30 secs timeout
- allow .ipa extension for local apps
- clean app using
pm clearinstead of clean.apk - massive refactor/rewrite of android/adb code
- fix dependency download error
- ensure all apks are signed
- add callback for remote debugger socket disconnect to avoid race conditions
- allow _ in package name
- add timeout for orientation change
- this is a bugfix release
- compile the i-w-d shim correctly for ios7
- update docs
- README rewrite
- allow spaces in xcode path
- completely reset and restart simulator between sessions
- turn CA_DEBUG_TRANSACTIONS on
- enable
authorize_ioson Mavericks - fix bug making handling alerts take longer than necessary
- update clean.apk
- refactored setOrientation
- fix screenshot method
- implement pinch in / out
- upgrade unlock.apk
- use pm uninstall/install in reset
- lots of reset.bat improvements
- make some more paths windows friendly
- add hybrid app docs
- fix unlock.apk for android 2.3
- get unlock.apk into build/ so prebuilt packages can use it
- make unlock.apk work with selendroid
- change remote url for selendroid submodule
- update selendroid to 0.6.0
- update contributor style guide
- add some troubleshooting tips to doc
- update test.sh for a better testing flow
- autodetect tracetemplate rather than bundling with appium
- choose version of instruments-without-delay based on xcode version
- get rid of --ios-sdk flag in reset.sh since appium now autodetects
- fix find elements by ID
- update clean.apk
- update touchevent for longpress
- add unlock.apk which is a more robust device unlock solution
- enable mobile chrome support on windows
- better support for tapping invisible elements
- add desired caps doc
- moveTo defaults to 0.5, 0.5
- add some more node/yiewd examples
- beefed up test.sh
- fix issue with finding ids
- add --ios-sdk flag to reset.sh to choose between 6.1/7.0
- various ios 7 compatibility fixes
- significant refactor of ios session lifecycle code, fixing various issues
- add automatic UDID detection
- attempt to tap element's coordinates when typical method doesn't work
- support more types of zip archives
- restart adb up to 10 times instead of 2
- fix --avd launching bug
- fix swipe steps/duration logic (note: will affect test behavior)
- support metastate for keyevent
- fix submodule issues
Historical Note: This version of Appium was published by @jlipps in a moving vehicle on a drive from Krakow, Poland to Warsaw, Poland. Thanks, @bkobos, for the chaffeurship and wi-fi!
- update troubleshooting doc
- fix app unzip issue
- remove app/apk files from zip path before appium starts
- fix location of UICatalog in reset.sh
- fix reset.sh android device matching
- update ruby examples
- add chrome example in node
- improve python example code
- begin to migrate tests from wd to yiewd
- respond to the last command even if instruments crashes
- don't attempt to reset real devices
- update instruments-without-delay with ios7 support
- add findById support (uses localization strings)
- add mobile: getStrings
- support setting value for sliders and switches with sendKeys()
- add preliminary support for ios7 with a different tracetemplate
- make mobile: localScreenshot more robust by fixing race condition
- add phonegap example
- don't require 'avd' to be set in order to install/uninstall to android
- dynamic find can use classmap aliases
- make it easy to run multiple android devices simultaneously
- support for dragFrom / dragTo functions in API level 18
- use resource-id for finding elements (findById)
- make getSize available
- make desired cap for compressedLayoutHierarchy
- add new version of unsign.jar
- fix stopCapture bug
- remove some deprecated methods (xmlKeyContains, etc)
- add mobile: getStrings
- always return true for click() (uiautomator bug)
- fix getAttribute to return strings instead of bool
- fix tests for use with now-required 4.3 emulator
- add phonegap example
- track selendroid dev branch instead of master
- upgrade to selendroid 0.5.0
- update docs
- some windows compat fixes
- reorder problematic async calls (issue #1000!)
- misc refactoring
- allow install/uninstall without device id
- fix race condition in starting chromedriver
- update selendroid version
- fix issue preventing errors from proxying correctly
- some documentation updates
- give appium server a big http timeout so it doesn't drop connections
- make sure chromedriver tries to restart adb if it fails the first time
- add logcat retrieval for android and selendroid
- allow use of --ipa and --app flags together
- try out a fix in mechanic.js for the (null) tap issues
- update various documentation (gestures, inspector tutorial, README)
- allow dashes in bundle/package IDs
- fix bad address startup error message
- use native function.bind() throughout instead of a mix of scoped objects and underscore.bind()
- use UiAutomator for back() instead of keyevent
- use UiAutomator for keyCode instead of adb shell
- use UiAutomator for screenshot instead of adb shell
- add some more mechanic aliases (keyboard, key)
- add pinch/zoom gestures
- add Java example for automating mobile safari
- automatically accept location services dialogs if we can access them
- accept text-based Info.plist files in addition to binary ones
- use reset.sh to download UICatalog rather than node/grunt
- make sure build/ is deleted by reset.sh
- re-publish without extraneous artifacts in build/
- update java examples to show correct use of JavascriptExecutor
- fix parser bug that prevented launching on windows
- fix missing parameter generating exceptions in testsuite
- fix more stdout maxBuffer errors
- fix android tests to use new activity style
- return timeout in set timeout commands
- fix mobile safari alert-handling issues
- attempt to capture and resolve location services popup using desired cap
- require shortcut activities to start with ".", allowing fully-qualified activities with packages different from the main appPackage
- if appium fails to launch activity with ".", it will retry
- allow downloaded apps to end in .apk as well as .zip
- fix xpath parser error not allowing widget packages to be used
- add longClick command
- added JUnit and TestNG examples
- support ChromiumTestShell as well as Google Chrome for Chrome tests
- fall back to
am startif Selendroid doesn't successfully launch the app
- bump maxBuffer for various subprocesses
- automatically re-register appium with grid if it disconnects
- augment style guide
- allow appium tests to read appium server port from $APPIUM_PORT
- add support for locking device for X seconds
- add support for backgrounding app for X seconds
- make finding node/instruments_client more robust for instruments context
- mobile methods for installing/uninstalling apps to device
- add shortcut for UIACollectionCell and UIATableCell
- ensure isEnabled returns a boolean value
- add mobile: searchId method to search for string by ID
- add mobile: resolveId method to resolve strings
- fix activity detection to be more allowing of different strings
- enable keystore for using different certs
- fix issue when large messages are transferred from bootstrap
- fix takesScreenshot capability
- add long tap method
- make screenshot work on windows
- fix scrollTo support
- add support for automating Chrome on Android!
- update selendroid to 90aef5d
- bugfix: authorize_ios needed #!
- make sure reset.sh checks for JAVA_HOME set for android/selendroid
- add mobile: reset docs
- alias POST /touch/click to POST /click
- fix discrepancy between isDisplayed() and isVisible() and isEnabled()
- use new Automation.tracetemplate
- fixes for checking alerts in webviews
- page source now gets all windows, not just main window
- allow custom node path by setting NODE_BIN in a settings file
- add authorize_ios binary to npm install so npm users can authorize their ios sim
- use path.resolve in a cross-platform way
- fix use of adb from within selendroid
- keyevent support
- fix app-wait-activity
- update to new version with new build instructions
- make selendroid port configurable
- fix use of exec and spawn so external commands work
- allow new session requests to override current session; this can be disabled with the --no-session-override flag
- make sure reset.sh fails if android bootstrap can't build
- make --no-reset do what it's supposed to do, and fix description in docs
- check to make sure conflicting arguments aren't passed to the server before launching
- removed deprecated flags completely (hence the minor version bump)
- bringing some error messages into line across platforms
- fix some issues with grunt building functions
- add find element by ID (parses strings.xml)
- remove a sleep in bootstrap server that caused delays
- make sure app is uninstalled when not using fast reset
- make sure AndroidManifest.xml.apk is writable (for npm installed appium)
- make sure device wakes up / unlocks before running test
- add set geo location support
- clean up and fix issues relating to mid-session bootstrap.jar restart
- app-wait-activity now takes comma-separated list of valid activities
- fix some tests
- fix mobile: reset
- started work on mobile_methods.md doc
- added hardcore mode to reset.sh that will refresh uicatalog inter alia
- ios-webkit-debug-proxy docs
- appium now registers correctly with selenium grid
- better bundle/package detection
- mobile: setLocation and POST /location for setting geolocation
- updated tests to work with new uicatalog version
- allow registering a websocket handler for alerts
- escape sendKeys values so you can send '
- fixed up tests a little bit
- fix fast reset race condition
- fix lack of AndroidManifest.xml.src in npm
- allow registering a websocket handler for alerts
- added method for getting location of element
- fixed package name for webviews
- initial Windows appium support (Android-only)
- reset.sh no longer fails silently if it errors
- added reset.bat for windows
- get status now returns actual appium version
- make sure reset.sh uninstalls android test apps if emulator is running
- include the git revision in the status object and in the logs at startup
- misc bugfixes
- ability to talk to mobile Safari on a real device over USB
- added native back() method
- sendKeys now only taps on field if it doesn't already have focus
- find by name checks to see if it found the element
- find by xpath no longer returns duplicate elements
- add support for ADT 22
- add "mobile: waitForPageLoad" that waits for indicators to clear
- fix scrollTo
- build selendroid modded servers in /tmp for npm
- fixed issue with running tests for multiple apps sequentially
- initial support for robot automation (robot intercepts tap etc)
- not strictly part of appium, but the Windows GUI has arrived in beta!
- fixed regression in mobile safari pre-launch
- updates to python examples
- refactored configuration code
- initial work making Appium's node code windows-compatible
- more lenient treatment of relationship between $HOME and system username
- fixing webview not waiting for page loading on url nav issue
- added node-idevice which streamlines installing .ipas on real devices
- implement scrollTo
- fixed bug in xpath code which returned last element first
- add some docs for installing HAXM
- add scroll_into_view for mobile: find
- completed android element class map
- http timeout tweaks
- significant change for command-line params for appium:
- --without-delay is now on by default. to turn it off, use --native-instruments-lib if you don't want it
- --fast-reset is now on by default. to turn it off, use --full-reset
- --verbose is now on by default. to turn it off, use --quiet
- added --dev flag to reset.sh to optionally include test apps / dev deps
- added --verbose flag to reset.sh to optionally spew info (was default)
- reset.sh now puts all binaries in /build so it can be packaged and reused by npm et al
- added more Java examples
- updated selendroid to 56581e27b45c3a4483d89701fc893ac37b172e46
- more python examples including for android
- node android code example
- migrated wiki to appium/docs
- added troubleshooting docs
- added auto-tagging of repo on npm publish
- add a config check to make sure reset.sh was run for a specific device before allowing appium to try to start a session with that device
- various efforts to fix/workaround the (null).tap() issue in UIAutomation
- added shake()
- partial match on content-desc
- find aapt in SDK or path
- better logging all around
- ensure app apk exists and fail if not
- added content-desc to all ApiDemos elements
- added --avd flag for launching emulator if not running
- added getName()
- fix mobile: find
- updated selendroid to 0.4
- don't re-build selendroid for each app, just re-insert manifest and build selendroid in reset.sh instead
- Initial Firefox OS support landed!
- support for xpath indexes
- support for xpath last()
- docs specific to linux
- fix name of npm binary-plist dependency
- update instruments-without-delay (fix #432)
- fix #437 (implicit wait didn't work after ios reset)
- when searching for @text, fall back to @label and @value
- allow @name to refer to @text, @label, and @value
- have "textfield" searches return "secure" fields as well
- add "collection" tag name
- make sure to do a clean build before building sample apps
- fix xpath wildcard issue
- fix tag name selector
- alias "window" tag name to "frame"
- tweak flick timing
- have swipe/flick return errors if we know they didn't execute
- fix page source on real device
- use aapt rename to handle manifest stuff
- screenshot support
- support for the clear() method
- fix proxy behavior
- added example/test for selendroid webview
- add WebViewDemo app with tasks for building it
- Running tests with grunt will now not crash on first test failure
- Rewrote reset.sh to respect sudo and to run for individual platforms
- Changed markdown rendering engine and logic for generating appium.io from README.md
- Add "mobile: find" method for complex find combinations
- Check that clean.apk is signed
- Orientation support
- Update verify.jar to work on java 6
- Massive refactoring of adb.js
- Added Selendroid proxy support (!)
- removed bloated appium.io submodule, replaced with no-binary one
- Fix plist resetting regression (#342)
- Fix to ensure GET /sessions doesn't return false information
- Allow instruments to find node binaries in MacPorts default location
- Allow instruments to find node binaries from Appium.app
- Rotate screenshots to match orientation of device
- Fix python examples
- Webview: add tests for implicit attributes
- Made sure window handles are always strings
- Reduced flakiness of swipe tests
- Added a Sauce Connect example
- C# example updates
- Fixed a few minor regressions
- Large refactoring of bootstrap code
- Moved ApiDemos code into a submodule which is included and built for tests
- Fix install command
- Support for element-based swiping
- Use selenium touch actions for flick()
- Some error message improvements
- Make sure we lint adb.js
- safari: use js close() instead of clicking buttons to close windows
- webview: make title() always return title for default context
- webview: async javascript execute
- webview: fix when webelements are returned to client
- allow launching app via bundle id and not just app path
- webview: get/set/delete cookie(s)
- correctly rotate screenshot images if taken in landscape mode
- add eclipse formatting file for bootstrap
- stop when activity fails to show up
- make content-desc search case-insensitive and partial
- allow launching emulator according to device id
- only sign app for clean apk once
- fix bug in npm dependencies (make swig a real dependency)
- fixed scoping bug in alert handling
- get rid of --warp flag, instruments-without-delay is better
- safari: clear cookies/history/windows in between test runs
- updates to reset.sh
- host our own guinea pig html page for webview tests
- updated java examples and docs
- webview: isActive()
- webview: submit()
- webview: clear()
- webview: selected()
- webview: implicit waits
- webview: location()
- webview: getName()
- webview: moveTo() and generalized click()
- webview: getWindowSize()
- webview: close()
- webview: don't allow alerts to cause webview requests to hang forever
- webview: find element(s) from element
- webview: get alert text
- webview: set prompt value
- allow pre-launching local zips/apps/safari from cli
- webview: allow execution in arbitrary frames
- "mobile: leaveWebView" special command instead of frame(null)
- webview: equalsElement()
- webview: back() and forward()
- webview: refresh()
- "mobile: fireEvent" for webview
- enable setting of device orientation through desired caps
- fix to not allow native commands to execute if webview command in progress
- bugfix in ios.js that left multiple remote debugger objs hanging around
- bumped command timeout since webview commands don't reset it
- fix in swipe where steps weren't converted to integers
- "mobile: keyevent" for hitting arbitrary keys
- native back()
- xpath search by "*"
- skip uninstall if --fast-reset set
- better error handling if activity is not found
- match other kinds of button than android.widget.Button with "button"
- allow matching custom class name (partial class name matching)
- relaunch on failure (or on screen cap)
- begun work to get bootstrap in maven
- flick() as an alias of sorts for swipe()
-- changes not tracked before v0.1.3 --