Member to perform a swipe about dotnet-client

[ytonthat]

I just found out that swipes can be performed using this method: TouchActions.Flick(IWebElement, int, int, int)

[Astro03]

@ytonthat Have you figured out to use TouchActions? Or do you think i should still expose the Flick through the AppiumDriver class? I honestly don't care, we were just doing the best we could with the Selenium driver we were given.

[ytonthat]

The TouchActions class allows us to do flick starting from an IWebElement

The Appium drivers in the other languages expose a swipe method that takes a start and end x and y location.
https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/appium-bindings.md

I think you should expose a similar method to be consistent with the other languages

[Astro03]

I actually agree with you - I think we should be consistent with all the other languages.

As for the TouchActions Flick method, you can totally give it an speedX and speedY and run it. (It's one of the overloaded methods).

I will get around to it when I have time, or you're more than welcome to do it and I'll merge it into the codebase.

Cheers,
ASTRO

[ytonthat]

Thank for the suggestion!
I believe the overloaded method should be used when you don't care about the start x and y coordinates. I actually have a use case in which I need to specify a stating location. To open a navigation drawer in Android, you must start swiping from the far left of your screen. There is no view that represents the edges of the screen in the app I am testing :(

[ytonthat]

I just tried the new client (1.0.0) with appium server 1.1.0. The new gestures api is awesome. I use this extension method to perform swipes on x/y coordinates and it works fine:

    public static void Swipe(this AppiumDriver driver, Location start, Location end)
    {
        if (driver == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException("driver");
        }

        if (start == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException("start");
        }

        if (end == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException("end");
        }

        ITouchAction action = new TouchAction(driver).Press(start.X, start.Y)
                                                     .Wait(ms: 800)
                                                     .MoveTo(end.X, end.Y)
                                                     .Release();
        action.Perform();
    }

[imsardine]

@ytonthat To open the navigation drawer, what coordinates did you pass to the Swipe method? Press(0, 100) doesn't work for me, and Press(-1, 100) results in an error message "An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command."

[ytonthat]

I use x = 1 as a starting point for opening drawers

[imsardine]

@ytonthat thanks for the information. Interestingly, I found x-coordinate of the starting point could be any small numbers other than zero.