appium-dotnet-client

This driver is an extension of the Selenium C# client. It has all the functionalities of the regular driver, but add Appium-specific methods on top of this.

Compatibility Matrix

The Appium .NET Client depends on Selenium .NET binding, thus the Selenium .NET binding update might affect the Appium .NET Client behavior. For example, some changes in the Selenium binding could break the Appium client.

Appium .NET Client	Selenium Binding	.NET Version
6.0.0	4.25.0+	.NET Standard 2.0, .NET 6.0
5.1.0	4.23.0	.NET 6.0, .NET Framework 4.8
5.0.0	4.0.0 - 4.22.0	.NET 6.0, .NET Framework 4.8
4.4.5	3.141.0	.NET Standard 2.0, .NET Framework 4.8

v5

Appium server compatibility for v5.x

Important

In case you are using the latest beta client v5.x please be aware you will either have to upgrade your appium server to 2.x or add the base-path argument: appium --base-path=/wd/hub, due to a breaking change on the default server base path.
Regardless, moving to appium 2.x is highly recommended since appium 1.x is no longer maintained.
For more details about how to migrate to 2.x, see the following link : appium 2.x migrating

Additional Information

W3C Actions: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/actions_api
App management: Please read issue #15807 for more details

Migration Guide to W3C actions

  using OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions;
  
  var touch = new PointerInputDevice(PointerKind.Touch, "finger");
  var sequence = new ActionSequence(touch);
  var move = touch.CreatePointerMove(elementToTouch, elementToTouch.Location.X, elementToTouch.Location.Y,TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
  var actionPress = touch.CreatePointerDown(MouseButton.Touch);
  var pause = touch.CreatePause(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(250));
  var actionRelease = touch.CreatePointerUp(MouseButton.Touch);
 
  sequence.AddAction(move);
  sequence.AddAction(actionPress);
  sequence.AddAction(pause);
  sequence.AddAction(actionRelease);
  
  var actions_seq = new List<ActionSequence>
  {
      sequence
  };
 
  _driver.PerformActions(actions_seq);

WinAppDriver Notice!

Warning

Because WinAppDriver has been abandoned by MS, running Appium dotnet-client 5.x with WAD will not work since it has not been updated to support the W3C protocol.
To run appium on Windows Applications, you will need to use appium-windows-driver which will act as a proxy to WAD. Examples of running Windows Applications with dotnet-client can be found here: windows Integration test 5.0.0
Regardless, feel free to open an issue on the WAD repository that will help get MS to open-source that project.

NuGet

NuGet Package

Dependencies:

• Selenium.WebDriver
• System.Drawing.Common

Note: we will NOT publish a signed version of this assembly since the dependencies we access through NuGet do not have a signed version - thus breaking the chain and causing us headaches. With that said, you are more than welcome to download the code and build a signed version yourself.

Usage

basics

• You need to add the following namespace line: using OpenQA.Selenium.Appium;.
• Use the AppiumDriver class/subclass to construct the driver. It works the same as the Selenium Webdriver, except that the ports default to Appium values, and the driver does not know how to start the Appium independently.
• To use the Appium methods on Element, specify the parameter of AppiumDriver or its subclasses.

Read Wiki

See samples here

Dev Build+Test

Xamarin/Mono

• Open with Xamarin
• Rebuild all
• Run tests in test/specs

JetBrains Rider

• Open with Rider
• From the menu Build -> Rebuild Solution
• Run tests in Appium.Net.Integration.Tests

Visual Studio

• Open with Visual Studio
• build solution

Nuget Deployment (for maintainers)

To Setup Nuget

• Download Nuget exe.
• Setup the Api Key (see here).
• alias NuGet='mono <Nuget Path>/NuGet.exe'

To Release a New Version

• update assemblyInfo.cs, RELEASE_NOTES.md, and appium-dotnet-driver.nuspec with the new version number and release details, then check it in
• pull new code
• Rebuild All with Release target.
• NuGet pack appium-dotnet-driver.nuspec
• NuGet push Appium.WebDriver.<version>.nupkg