appium-gestures-plugin v4.0.1

appium-gestures-plugin

This is an Appium plugin designed to perform basic gestures using W3C Actions.

Prerequisite

Appium version 2.0

Installation - Server

Install the plugin using Appium's plugin CLI, either as a named plugin or via NPM:

appium plugin install --source=npm appium-gestures-plugin

Activation

The plugin will not be active unless turned on when invoking the Appium server:

appium --use-plugins=gestures

Usage

Sample app used to demonstrate below gesture is available here

Swipe Left

RemoteWebElement carousel = (RemoteWebElement) wait.until(presenceOfElementLocated(AppiumBy.accessibilityId("Carousel")));

driver.executeScript("gesture: swipe", Map.of("elementId", carousel.getId(), "percentage", 50, "direction", "left"));

Swipe Right

RemoteWebElement carousel = (RemoteWebElement) wait.until(presenceOfElementLocated(AppiumBy.accessibilityId("Carousel")));

driver.executeScript("gesture: swipe", Map.of("elementId", carousel.getId(), "percentage", 50, "direction", "right"));

Swipe Up

RemoteWebElement scrollView = (RemoteWebElement) wait.until(presenceOfElementLocated(AppiumBy.accessibilityId("Swipe-screen")));

driver.executeScript("gesture: swipe", Map.of("elementId", scrollView.getId(),
                "percentage", 50,
                "direction", "up"));

Swipe Down

RemoteWebElement scrollView = (RemoteWebElement) wait.until(presenceOfElementLocated(AppiumBy.accessibilityId("Swipe-screen")));

driver.executeScript("gesture: swipe", Map.of("elementId", scrollView.getId(),
                "percentage", 50,
                "direction", "down"));

scrollElementIntoView

RemoteWebElement scrollView = (RemoteWebElement) wait.until(presenceOfElementLocated(AppiumBy.accessibilityId("Swipe-screen")));

driver.executeScript("gesture: scrollElementIntoView", Map.of("scrollableView", scrollView.getId(),
    "strategy", "accessibility id",
    "selector", "WebdriverIO logo",
    "percentage", 50,
    "direction", "up",
    "maxCount", 3));

Sample app used to demonstrate below gesture is available here

Drag and Drop

RemoteWebElement source = (RemoteWebElement) wait.until(elementToBeClickable(AppiumBy.accessibilityId("dragMe")));
RemoteWebElement destination = (RemoteWebElement) wait.until(elementToBeClickable(AppiumBy.accessibilityId("dropzone")));

driver.executeScript("gesture: dragAndDrop", Map.of("sourceId", source.getId(), "destinationId", destination.getId()));

Double Tap

RemoteWebElement doubleTapMe = (RemoteWebElement) driver.findElement(AppiumBy.accessibilityId("doubleTapMe"));

driver.executeScript("gesture: doubleTap", Map.of("elementId", doubleTapMe.getId()));

Long Press

Pressure has to be between 0 and 1.

RemoteWebElement longPress = (RemoteWebElement) driver.findElement(AppiumBy.accessibilityId("longpress"));

driver.executeScript("gesture: longPress", Map.of("elementId", longPress.getId(), "pressure", 0.5, "duration", 800));

WDIO

await driver.execute('gesture: dragAndDrop', { sourceId, destinationId });

Supported

• Swipe Left, right, up and down
• scrollElementIntoView
• Drag and Drop
• Double Tap
• Long Press

TODO

• zoom
• multi finger swipe