Appium 1.11.0

Appium 1.11.0 is a minor release.

iOS

• Fix issues with MJPEG video streaming #134
• Xcode 10.2 device list support appium/node-simctl#77

Android

• Add chromedriverDisableBuildCheck capability which sets the –disable-build-check flag on Chromedriver #474
• Add skipDeviceInitialization capability which speeds up session startup for cases where Appium doesn’t need to wait for the device, push a settings app, or set permissions #480
• Fall back to pressing BACK button if ESC fails to close soft keyboard #471
• Improve XML source building performance by using Jaxen/JDOM2 library on Espresso and UiAutomator2 #237
• Add setting normalizeTagNames which is set to true by default, which normalizes source tag names to workaround parsing problems
• Fix: Include API level 23 for granting of permissions to apps. 23 was being incorrectly excluded previously #473
• Fix: Only call helpers.ensureDeviceLocale if language or locale was set, to avoid spending startup time on locale unnecessarily #477
• Fix: Don’t regard apps as ‘temporary’ if the app is a relative path #479
• Fix session init. Uninstalls Espresso server if server is older or newer than currently installed Espresso server #358
• Fix setting WiFi connection status #30

Android (UiAutomator2)

• Add skipServerInstallation capability that skips the step of installing the UIAutomator2 server #266
• Fix duplicate chrome startup #266
• Only perform uiautomation process cleanup if instrumentation crashes #280