Questions tagged [appium-desktop]

Appium Desktop is an open source app for Mac, Windows, and Linux which gives you the power of the Appium automation server in a beautiful and flexible UI. It is a combination of a few Appium-related tools: A graphical interface for the Appium Server. An Inspector that you can use to look at your app's elements, get basic information about them, and perform basic interactions with them.

Appium Desktop is an open source app for Mac, Windows, and Linux which gives you the power of the Appium automation server in a beautiful and flexible UI. It is a combination of a few Appium-related tools:

A graphical interface for the Appium Server. You can set options, start/stop the server, see logs, etc... You also don't need to use Node/NPM to install Appium, as the Node runtime comes bundled with Appium Desktop.
An Inspector that you can use to look at your app's elements, get basic information about them, and perform basic interactions with them. This is useful as a way to learn about Appium or as a way to learn about your app so you can write tests for it.

For more information see here

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Appium for a windows application: Cannot find element after double-click

Using Appium 5.0.0-beta to automate a test for a desktop application on Windows. I can open the application and find elements with no problem, but after double-clicking a button which modifies a part of the window, Appium can no longer locate any…
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Appium driver.find_element() returns Dictionary [Error]

Appium verison: 2.1.4 Selenium version: 4.0.0 driver.find_element() returns a dictionary instead of an element object, so while doing driver.find_element().click() the following error is thrown. 'dict' object has no attribute 'click' Similar…
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WinAppDriver - Get Window Handles Titles

I need to create an algorithm that switches from one windows to another using WinAppDriver like this windowsDriver.SwitchTo().Window(allWindowHandles[0]). However, I also need the Title of the pages found in windowsDriver.WindowHandles, or at least…
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How to set focus on a control with Appium in Windows (WPF, Desktop)?

I'm automating a WPF desktop app in Windows. We're currently switching from CodedUI to Appium, as the former is deprecated. I'm trying to click a control that is currently not visible, as it requires the user to scroll down. It's worth noting that,…
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Appium can't locate & access elements using accessibility id attribute on IOS

The automation tests used to work until recently (~ one month ago). The issue is that the elements are not located when using Appium inspect element tool and also when tests are running on IOS. Accessibility ID selector is shown in Appium inspect…
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What is meaning of dialect in the message INFO: Detected dialect: OSS

What is the meaning of dialect in the message INFO: Detected dialect: OSS. I am getting this message when I am launching my appium application. And if there is anyway while launching my application I can launch it in dialect W3C. What defines on…
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Trying to run a Robot Framework Test Case against a Windows app with Appium Server - possible?

I am using Robot Framework with the RIDE IDE. I have an Appium Server session running. As a first try, I want to write a Robot Framework test case to open an instance of the Windows notepad. Firstly, is this even possible, or am I…
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Appium Desktop - Could not find 'adb'

I am trying to use the inspector in the Appium Desktop for Mac. After I add my desired capabilities, I get the following error: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: Could not find 'adb' in…
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What are the ways or tools available to inspect element in a Mac desktop application

We have firebug or chropath or inspect element methods to find locators of a web application. Similarly, how to identify element of a Mac desktop application (for example, iTunes desktop app)? Thanks in advance.
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Appium SendKeys to WPF uses different keyboard layout

Issue In my current project I am implementing some trivial automated tests for a video call application which runs on Android, iOS (with Unity) and Windows (WPF). To create those automated tests I decided to use Appium for several reasons. The most…
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Is there a way to retrieve information from a ui element that has the property IsControlElement = False? (Python + Appium + WinAppDriver)

Greetings and salutations! I'm working on a UI automation project for a windows desktop app (FrameworkId: Win32) Stack: Python (3.7) + Appium (1.15.1) + WinAppDriver (v1.1). I have identified an element using Inspect.exe, but when I try to code,…
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Using chromedriver_autodownload feature programmatically with appium

How to use chromedriver_autodownload feature from Appium desktop while initializing Android driver programmatically with Appium or while starting the Appium server from…
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AppiumStudio (Windows) : No Available Teams Found

Not able to configure apple developer account in AppiumStudio on windows machine. it's showing 'No Available Teams Found' while login to valid apple developer account I am able to login to https://developer.apple.com/ with same credentials Appium…
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How can we put wait if application doesn't support implicit wait or explicit wait? I'm using Thread.sleep() in mycase

I am executing my scripts on android device. How can I put wait if the application doesn't support implicit wait or explicit wait? I'm using Thread.sleep() in my case. Can anyone give me a solution for this?
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