Appium 1.12.0

Appium 1.12.0 is a minor release.

General

• Fix wrong coordination in find element by . #306, #307
• Added fixImageTemplateScale and defaultImageTemplateScale to arrange image comparison logic.

iOS

• Add eventLoopIdleDelaySec capability. Delays the invocation of -[XCUIApplicationProcess setEventLoopHasIdled:] by the number of seconds specified with this capability. This can help quiescence apps that fail to do so for no obvious reason (and creating a session fails for that reason) #881
• Add -r flag for video recording to make screen video recording more flexible #867`
• Add enforceFreshSimulatorCreation capability #859
• More helpful logging - add mjpegScalingFactor settings that change image scale of mjpeg server to stream screen #138
• Fix useXctestrunFile capability for newer Xcode #903
• Returns a couple of lines of xcodebuild error message if WDA xcodebuild fails. It helps to understand the cause. #888

Android

• Add mobile: endpoint for enabling/disabling/viewing app permissions #305
• Fix exception caused when Appium Settings fails to provide geolocation #493
• Stop chromedriver proxies when reset command is called #495
• Fix pin unlock errors. Turn screen off before doing pin unlock to ensure pin unlock screen has no existing entries. #498
• Add uninstallOtherPackages capability #289
• Fix pattern unlock problems caused by not using relative touches #489
• Add chromedriverArgs capability that passes chromedriver flags into sessions #519
• Add skipLogcatCapture capability that skip capturing logcat, for possible performance enhancement.

Android (UiAutomator2)

• Verify file system permissions before signing files to avoid confusing signing errors #294