appium/appium v1.18.0

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Appium 1.18.0 is a minor release

General

• Add score attribute for ImageElement appium-base-driver#396
• Add a route to be able to execute Chrome DevTools commands to downstream drivers appium-base-driver#405
  • e.g. Clients can send /session/:sessionId/goog/cdp/execute command to Chromedriver
• Fix socket leak by handling connections in a shared pool appium-base-driver#416
• Fix to encode filenames with UTF-8 while extracting .ipa packages appium-base-driver#419
  • The change fixes .ipa packages deployment that contain file names containing non-ASCII characters like this issue

Android General

• Add capabilities:
  • mockLocationApp to make location mock configurable appium-android-driver#632
  • logcatFormat, logcatFilterSpecs to allow logcat output format customization appium-adb#528
  • ignoreHiddenApiPolicyError to ignore permission error when hidden api policy change happens appium-adb#507
• Add mobile: functions:
  • mobile: getDeviceTime to get the device time appium-android-driver#623
  • mobile: execEmuConsoleCommand to send emulator console commands appium-android-driver#517 #630
  • mobile: deleteFile to delete a file appium-android-driver#634
  • mobile: startService and mobile: stopService to start or stop services via adb shell commands appium-android-driver#647
• Add including native context log for getLog command appium-android-driver#646
• Fix tapping by element coordinate appium-android-driver#355

Android (UiAutomator2)

• Add capabilities:
  • disableSuppressAccessibilityService to control FLAG_DONT_SUPPRESS_ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICES flag appium-uiautomator2-driver#376
    waitForLaunch
  • mjpegServerPort to customize MJPEG server port appium-uiautomator2-driver#386
• Add mobile: functions:
  • mobile: sensorSet to set sensor appium-uiautomator2-driver#378
  • mobile: scroll to allow to scroll action in some ways. Please read appium-uiautomator2-driver for more details. appium-uiautomator2-driver#385
  • mobile: deepLink to send deeplink command with waitForLaunch option to handle the wait for logic appium-uiautomator2-driver#389
  • mobile: viewportRect to return view port rectangle appium-uiautomator2-driver#404
• Known issue
  • #14586: Root element fix might affect XPath locators executed on elements, retrieved from nested lookup requests (the document root for such elements is now the element itself rather than a fake hierarchy root)

Android (Espresso)

• Add capabilities:
  • disableSuppressAccessibilityService to control FLAG_DONT_SUPPRESS_ACCESSIBILITY_SERVICES flag appium-espresso-driver#559
  • appLocale to set Locale for the target context appium-espresso-driver#580
• Add mobile: functions:
  • mobile: sensorSet to set sensor appium-espresso-driver

iOS (XCUITest)

• Add Xcode 12 beta and iOS 14 support
• Add settings:
  • boundElementsByIndex for bounding strategy to lookup elements WebDriverAgent#357
• Add XCTest mobile: functions: appium-xcuitest-driver#1205. Please read test code as an example.
  • mobile: runXCTest to run XCTest bundle
  • mobile: installXCTestBundle to install the xctest bundle
  • mobile: listXCTestBundles to get list of xctests within bundle
  • mobile: listXCTestsInTestBundle to return the list of XCTest bundles
• Add audio recording for simulators and real devices appium-xcuitest-driver#1207
  • Read Audio Capture From iOS Simulators and Real Devices
• Add prebuilt WebDriverAgentRunner snapshots to speed up tests execution on iOS Simulator in appium-webdriveragend npm package WebDriverAgent#331
  • The path is appium/node_modules/appium-webdriveragend/WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner.app.zip
  • The usage is:

    idb install /WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner.app --udid <device-udid>
    idb launch com.facebook.WebDriverAgentRunner.xctrunner

• Fix a memory leak by removing unnecessary dependencies WebDriverAgent#348 WebDriverAgent#350 WebDriverAgent#351
• Fix respecting webDriverAgentUrl in favor of wdaLocalPort and wdaBaseUrl for real devices WebDriverAgent#342
• Fix ignoring the case where process locking the socket is not alive WebDriverAgent#339
• Fix to improve alert buttons detection WebDriverAgent#322

Windows

• Add video recording appium-windows-driver#66
• Add findByImage appium-windows-driver#67