Appium 1.15.0

Appium 1.15.0 is a minor release, with support for iOS 13.0.

General

• Add –base-path server argument to set a custom route prefix #13079
• Store the image element for retrieval #327
• Fix handling of W3C/MJSONWP protocols #331 #336 #337 #348 #351 #353 #355
• Fix handling of timezone when getting the device data/time #392 #557
• Fix handling of globally installed opencv4nodejs and mjpeg-consumer modules #105
• Make it possible to start server without an app or a package id using UiAutomator2 and XCUITest #337 #195
• Internally, WebDriverAgent, UiAutomator2 and Espresso servers operate only through W3C spec protocol

iOS

• Support iOS 13/Xcode 11
• Bump generic “iphone simulator” device name for iOS 13.0 from iPhone 8 to iPhone X #1068
• Add support for otherApps capability on iOS like we have on Android #988
• Add “mobile: activeAppInfo” feature #1025
• Settings
  • mjpegScalingFactor #983
  • snapshotTimeout #181
  • useFirstMatch #187
  • defaultActiveApplication #209
  • activeAppDetectionPoint #215 #218
• New capabilities
  • includeSafariInWebviews #1060
  • safariGlobalPreferences #1057
• Remove some third-party dependencies
  • idevicedate #1042
  • iproxy #996
  • idevicesyslog #1000
  • idevicelocation #1006
  • ifuse #1019
  • ios-webkit-debug-proxy #1023
• Get only user apps in file-movement for performance aspect #1014
• Switch reduceMotion via settings API instead of update simulator pref #1065
• Add the necessary primitives to be able to automate split-screen apps #209
• Add a new endpoint for element rotation #213
• Add useful information in “mobile: deviceInfo” #210
• Add ability to automate split screen applications #214 #215 #204
• Allow setting compression quality and scaling factor for mjpeg-stream #196
• Fix GET /timeouts #1067
• Switch async execute to not need CORS (works for real and simulated devices) #1063
• Fix uninstalling of WDA with ‘.xctrunner’ suffix for real device #1052
• Fix caching issues #1053
• Fix mjpegstream logic for returning screenshots #1039
• Fix Node bug when ending session #1040
• Fix launching WDA multiple times #999
• Fix “get active element” #1011
• Fix screenshot taking for iOS below 11 #193
• Fix to not throw exception if the app is not in foreground after a timeout #211
• Fix tap and tapByCoordinate to use their native implementations since iOS 13.0 #212 #217
• Fix calculation of touch coordinates in landscape orientation for iOS 13.1 #220

Android

• Default Chromedriver version is 77.0.3865.40 #143
• Add server feature to enable automated Chromedriver downloads #548
• New capabilities
  • waitForLaunch #556 #327
  • ensureWebviewsHavePages #553
  • enforceAppInstall #573
• Fix partial platform version matching #567

Android (UiAutomator2)

• New capabilities
  • gpsEnabled #320
• New settings
  • wakeLockTimeout #298
• Fix server package install by enabling replace option #336
• Fix server package install by copying apks to temporary writeable location if they cannot be written where they are #338