How to do Vertical Scroll in Appium without scrollTo()?

Hi everyone today we will see how to use scroll action in Appium Test case.As we know in latest version of appium swipe() and scrollTo() methods are depricated lets see an alternative way to scroll through as List View.

Video Tutorial - 

 

App Under Test -
Check out the below screenshot of the app which has ListView containing 50 rows . Each row contains Text and Toggle Button. When you click on the row text at the top you can check which row was clicked.

Vertical Scroll

Test Scenario-
1. Launch Activity.
2. Scroll to List item:25.
3. Click on the row text.
4. Click on the toggle button.

Vertical Scroll

Test Case -

package com.example.anuja.appiumapplication;

import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.Dimension;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

import java.net.URL;

import io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver;
import io.appium.java_client.MobileBy;
import io.appium.java_client.MobileElement;
import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver;
import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidElement;
import io.appium.java_client.remote.MobileCapabilityType;

import static junit.framework.Assert.assertNotNull;

/**
 * Created by Anuja on 2/8/2017.
 */



public class HorizontalTabScroll
{
    AppiumDriver driver;
    Dimension size;

    @Before
    public void testCaseSetup()throws  Exception
    {

        DesiredCapabilities cap=new DesiredCapabilities();
        cap.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.PLATFORM_NAME, "Android");
        cap.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_NAME, "Android device");
        cap.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.NEW_COMMAND_TIMEOUT, "4000");
        cap.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.APP, "c://apks//listviewsample.apk");
        cap.setCapability("noReset", true);
        driver = new AndroidDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), cap);

    }
    
    @Test
    public void testScroll()throws Exception
    {
        driver.findElementByAccessibilityId("Views").click();
        AndroidElement list = (AndroidElement) driver.findElement(By.id("android:id/mobile_list"));
        MobileElement listGroup = list
                .findElement(MobileBy
                        .AndroidUIAutomator("new UiScrollable(new UiSelector()).scrollIntoView("
                                + "new UiSelector().text(\" List item:25\"));"));
        assertNotNull(listGroup.getLocation());
        listGroup.click();
    }

    @After
    public void testCaseTearDown()
    {
        driver.quit();
    }
}

with this post you can write test code for Vertical Scroll up to specified dimensions , Vertical Scroll till you find the element  and vertical scroll till the end.

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