appium/appium v1.16.0

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Appium 1.16.0 is a minor release

General

• Fix handling of unexpected shutdown (appium/appium-base-driver#370) (#13635) (#13662)
• Beta support for Flutter (#12945)
• Add log a custom event and get events (appium/appium-base-driver#364, appium/appium-base-driver#365)
• Improve memory usage

IOS General

• Fix creation of simulators on Xcode patch versions (appium/node-simctl#89)
• Support setting geolocation on simulators using Lyft's set-simulator-location CLI (appium/appium-ios-simulator#249)

IOS (XCUITest):

• Add support for shadow DOM elements (appium/appium-remote-debugger@559395a)
• fix problem in webview asynchronous execute on older versions of iOS, when low timeouts would cause the return value to never be returned (appium/appium-remote-debugger#185)
• Allow execution of WDA without app under test (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1093)
• Add mobile: deleteFile command for removing files/folders from the device (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1095)
• Fall back to ios-deploy if native install fails (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1098)
• Make sure ports are properly closed when cleaning up (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1094)
• Handle socket errors on session start (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1101)
• Properly handle creating simulators with patch versions (appium/node-simctl#89)
• Fix handling of Safari console log (appium/appium-remote-debugger#176)
• Add ability to interact with Shadow DOM in Safari (appium/appium-remote-debugger@559395a)
• New capabilities
  • safariLogAllCommunication - log all plists passed to and received from the Web Inspector (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1105)
  • safariLogAllCommunicationHexDump - log the raw data passed to and received from the Web Inspector (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1105)
  • safariSocketChunkSize - change the size of the data passed to the Web Inspector on real devices (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1105)
  • additionalWebviewBundleIds - accept an array of bundle identifiers to poll for during webview app selection (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1117)
  • appPushTimeout - timeout for application upload in millisecond, on real devices (appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1104)

Android General

• Add mobile: sensorSet to gain access to setting device sensor data (appium/appium-android-driver#555)
• Speed up manifest parsing (appium/appium-adb#471)
• Fix process identification on older Android versions (appium/appium-adb#472)
• Fix batch permission setting (appium/appium-adb#477)
• Allow appWaitDuration to be set as low as 0 (appium/appium-adb#479)

Android (UiAutomator2)

• Add get clipboard for Android 10+ (appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver#348)
• Fix prefer IPv4 address to the host name (appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver#343)
• Fix Turn write access verification on Windows environment (appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver#340)
• Add bluetooth state as deviceInfo (appium/appium-uiautomator2-server#312)
• Allow session creation without starting an application (appium/appium-uiautomator2-driver#337)

Android (Espresso)

• Allow configuring Gradle, AGP, various SDK and Kotlin versions for Espresso server (appium/appium-espresso-driver#496)
  • Many thanks to @tinder-ktarasov
• Add get clipboard for Android 10+ (appium/appium-espresso-driver#512)

Windows

• Support WinAppDriver 1.2 release candidate (appium/appium-windows-driver#60)
  • Important capabilities: ms:waitForAppLaunch, ms:experimental-webdriver
• Add a possibility to customize application startup timeout (appium/appium-windows-driver#59)
  • createSessionTimeout (https://github.com/appium/appium-windows-driver#windowsdriver-specific-capabilities)