CHANGELOG.txt

CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8.2 (from 0.8.1)
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#### GENERAL
- make sure build/ is deleted by reset.sh
- re-publish without extraneous artifacts in build/


CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8.1 (from 0.8.0)
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### GENERAL
- update java examples to show correct use of JavascriptExecutor
- fix parser bug that prevented launching on windows
- fix missing parameter generating exceptions in testsuite
- fix more stdout maxBuffer errors
- fix android tests to use new activity style
- return timeout in set timeout commands

### IOS
- fix mobile safari alert-handling issues
- attempt to capture and resolve location services popup using desired cap

### ANDROID
- require shortcut activities to start with ".", allowing fully-qualified
  activities with packages different from the main appPackage
- if appium fails to launch activity with ".", it will retry
- allow downloaded apps to end in .apk as well as .zip
- fix xpath parser error not allowing widget packages to be used
- add longClick command
- added JUnit and TestNG examples
- support ChromiumTestShell as well as Google Chrome for Chrome tests

### SELENDROID
- fall back to `am start` if Selendroid doesn't successfully launch the app


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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.8.0 (from 0.7.3)
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[GENERAL]
- bump maxBuffer for various subprocesses
- automatically re-register appium with grid if it disconnects
- augment style guide
- allow appium tests to read appium server port from $APPIUM_PORT

[IOS]
- add support for locking device for X seconds
- add support for backgrounding app for X seconds
- make finding node/instruments_client more robust for instruments context
- mobile methods for installing/uninstalling apps to device
- add shortcut for UIACollectionCell and UIATableCell
- ensure isEnabled returns a boolean value

[ANDROID]
- add mobile: searchId method to search for string by ID
- add mobile: resolveId method to resolve strings
- fix activity detection to be more allowing of different strings
- enable keystore for using different certs
- fix issue when large messages are transferred from bootstrap
- fix takesScreenshot capability
- add long tap method
- make screenshot work on windows
- fix scrollTo support

[CHROME]
- add support for automating Chrome on Android!

[SELENDROID]
- update selendroid to 90aef5d

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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.7.3 (from 0.7.2)
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[IOS]
- bugfix: authorize_ios needed #!

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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.7.2 (from 0.7.1)
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[GENERAL]
- make sure reset.sh checks for JAVA_HOME set for android/selendroid
- add mobile: reset docs
- alias POST /touch/click to POST /click

[IOS]
- fix discrepancy between isDisplayed() and isVisible() and isEnabled()
- use new Automation.tracetemplate
- fixes for checking alerts in webviews
- page source now gets all windows, not just main window
- allow custom node path by setting NODE_BIN in a settings file
- add authorize_ios binary to npm install so npm users can authorize their ios
  sim

[ANDROID]
- use path.resolve in a cross-platform way

[SELENDROID]
- fix use of adb from within selendroid
- keyevent support
- fix app-wait-activity

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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.7.1 (from 0.7.0)
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[SELENDROID]
- update to new version with new build instructions
- make selendroid port configurable

[WINDOWS]
- fix use of exec and spawn so external commands work

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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.7.0 (from 0.6.1)
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[GENERAL]
- allow new session requests to override current session; this can be disabled
  with the --no-session-override flag
- make sure reset.sh fails if android bootstrap can't build
- make --no-reset do what it's supposed to do, and fix description in docs
- check to make sure conflicting arguments aren't passed to the server before
  launching
- removed deprecated flags completely (hence the minor version bump)
- bringing some error messages into line across platforms
- fix some issues with grunt building functions

[ANDROID]
- add find element by ID (parses strings.xml)
- remove a sleep in bootstrap server that caused delays
- make sure app is uninstalled when not using fast reset
- make sure AndroidManifest.xml.apk is writable (for npm installed appium)
- make sure device wakes up / unlocks before running test
- add set geo location support
- clean up and fix issues relating to mid-session bootstrap.jar restart
- app-wait-activity now takes comma-separated list of valid activities

[IOS]
- fix some tests
- fix mobile: reset

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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.6.1 (from 0.6.0)
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[GENERAL]
- started work on mobile_methods.md doc
- added hardcore mode to reset.sh that will refresh uicatalog inter alia
- ios-webkit-debug-proxy docs 
- appium now registers correctly with selenium grid
- better bundle/package detection

[IOS]
- mobile: setLocation and POST /location for setting geolocation
- updated tests to work with new uicatalog version
- allow registering a websocket handler for alerts
- escape sendKeys values so you can send '
- fixed up tests a little bit

[ANDROID]
- fix fast reset race condition
- fix lack of AndroidManifest.xml.src in npm
- allow registering a websocket handler for alerts
- added method for getting location of element
- fixed package name for webviews

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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.6.0 (from 0.5.2)
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[GENERAL]
- initial Windows appium support (Android-only)
- reset.sh no longer fails silently if it errors
- added reset.bat for windows
- get status now returns actual appium version
- make sure reset.sh uninstalls android test apps if emulator is running
- include the git revision in the status object and in the logs at startup
- misc bugfixes

[IOS]
- ability to talk to mobile Safari on a real device over USB
- added native back() method
- sendKeys now only taps on field if it doesn't already have focus

[ANDROID]
- find by name checks to see if it found the element
- find by xpath no longer returns duplicate elements
- add support for ADT 22
- add "mobile: waitForPageLoad" that waits for indicators to clear
- fix scrollTo

[SELENDROID]
- build selendroid modded servers in /tmp for npm
- fixed issue with running tests for multiple apps sequentially

[ROBOT]
- initial support for robot automation (robot intercepts tap etc)

[APPIUM.EXE]
- not strictly part of appium, but the Windows GUI has arrived in beta!

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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.5.2 (from 0.5.1)
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[IOS]
- fixed regression in mobile safari pre-launch

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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.5.1 (from 0.5.0)
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[GENERAL]
- updates to python examples
- refactored configuration code
- initial work making Appium's node code windows-compatible
- more lenient treatment of relationship between $HOME and system username

[IOS]
- fixing webview not waiting for page loading on url nav issue
- added node-idevice which streamlines installing .ipas on real devices
- implement scrollTo
- fixed bug in xpath code which returned last element first

[ANDROID]
- add some docs for installing HAXM
- add scroll_into_view for mobile: find
- completed android element class map

[SELENDROID]
- http timeout tweaks


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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.5.0 (from 0.4.1)
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[GENERAL]
- significant change for command-line params for appium:
    - --without-delay is now on by default. to turn it off, use
      --native-instruments-lib if you don't want it
    - --fast-reset is now on by default. to turn it off, use --full-reset
    - --verbose is now on by default. to turn it off, use --quiet


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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.4.1 (from 0.4.0)
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[GENERAL]
- added --dev flag to reset.sh to optionally include test apps / dev deps
- added --verbose flag to reset.sh to optionally spew info (was default)
- reset.sh now puts all binaries in /build so it can be packaged and reused by
  npm et al

[IOS]
- added more Java examples

[SELENDROID]
- updated selendroid to 56581e27b45c3a4483d89701fc893ac37b172e46


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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.4.0 (from 0.3.1)
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[GENERAL]
- more python examples including for android
- node android code example
- migrated wiki to appium/docs
- added troubleshooting docs
- added auto-tagging of repo on npm publish
- add a config check to make sure reset.sh was run for a specific device
  before allowing appium to try to start a session with that device

[IOS]
- various efforts to fix/workaround the (null).tap() issue in UIAutomation
- added shake()

[ANDROID]
- partial match on content-desc
- find aapt in SDK or path
- better logging all around
- ensure app apk exists and fail if not
- added content-desc to all ApiDemos elements
- added --avd flag for launching emulator if not running
- added getName()
- fix mobile: find

[SELENDROID]
- updated selendroid to 0.4
- don't re-build selendroid for each app, just re-insert manifest and build
  selendroid in reset.sh instead

[FIREFOXOS]
- Initial Firefox OS support landed!


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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.3.1 (from 0.3.0)
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[GENERAL]
- support for xpath indexes
- support for xpath last()
- docs specific to linux
- fix name of npm binary-plist dependency

[IOS]
- update instruments-without-delay (fix #432)
- fix #437 (implicit wait didn't work after ios reset)
- when searching for @text, fall back to @label and @value
- allow @name to refer to @text, @label, and @value
- have "textfield" searches return "secure" fields as well
- add "collection" tag name
- make sure to do a clean build before building sample apps

[ANDROID]
- fix xpath wildcard issue
- fix tag name selector
- alias "window" tag name to "frame"
- tweak flick timing
- have swipe/flick return errors if we know they didn't execute
- fix page source on real device
- use aapt rename to handle manifest stuff
- screenshot support
- support for the clear() method

[SELENDROID]
- fix proxy behavior
- added example/test for selendroid webview
- add WebViewDemo app with tasks for building it


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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.3.0 (from 0.2.3)
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[GENERAL]
- Running tests with grunt will now not crash on first test failure
- Rewrote reset.sh to respect sudo and to run for individual platforms
- Changed markdown rendering engine and logic for generating appium.io from
  README.md

[ANDROID]
- Add "mobile: find" method for complex find combinations
- Check that clean.apk is signed
- Orientation support
- Update verify.jar to work on java 6
- Massive refactoring of adb.js
- Added Selendroid proxy support (!)


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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.2.3 (from 0.2.2)
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[GENERAL]
- removed bloated appium.io submodule, replaced with no-binary one
- Fix plist resetting regression (#342)
- Fix to ensure GET /sessions doesn't return false information

[IOS]
- Allow instruments to find node binaries in MacPorts default location
- Allow instruments to find node binaries from Appium.app
- Rotate screenshots to match orientation of device
- Fix python examples
- Webview: add tests for implicit attributes
- Made sure window handles are always strings
- Reduced flakiness of swipe tests
- Added a Sauce Connect example
- C# example updates
- Fixed a few minor regressions

[ANDROID]
- Large refactoring of bootstrap code
- Moved ApiDemos code into a submodule which is included and built for tests
- Fix install command
- Support for element-based swiping
- Use selenium touch actions for flick()
- Some error message improvements
- Make sure we lint adb.js

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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.2.2 (from 0.2.1)
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[IOS]
- safari: use js close() instead of clicking buttons to close windows
- webview: make title() always return title for default context
- webview: async javascript execute
- webview: fix when webelements are returned to client
- allow launching app via bundle id and not just app path
- webview: get/set/delete cookie(s)
- correctly rotate screenshot images if taken in landscape mode

[ANDROID]
- add eclipse formatting file for bootstrap
- stop when activity fails to show up
- make content-desc search case-insensitive and partial
- allow launching emulator according to device id
- only sign app for clean apk once

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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.2.1 (from 0.2.0)
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[GENERAL]
- fix bug in npm dependencies (make swig a real dependency)

[IOS]
- fixed scoping bug in alert handling
- get rid of --warp flag, instruments-without-delay is better
- safari: clear cookies/history/windows in between test runs

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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.2.0 (from 0.1.3)
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[GENERAL]
- updates to reset.sh
- host our own guinea pig html page for webview tests
- updated java examples and docs

[IOS]
- webview: isActive()
- webview: submit()
- webview: clear()
- webview: selected()
- webview: implicit waits
- webview: location()
- webview: getName()
- webview: moveTo() and generalized click()
- webview: getWindowSize()
- webview: close()
- webview: don't allow alerts to cause webview requests to hang forever
- webview: find element(s) from element
- webview: get alert text
- webview: set prompt value
- allow pre-launching local zips/apps/safari from cli
- webview: allow execution in arbitrary frames
- "mobile: leaveWebView" special command instead of frame(null)
- webview: equalsElement()
- webview: back() and forward()
- webview: refresh()
- "mobile: fireEvent" for webview
- enable setting of device orientation through desired caps
- fix to not allow native commands to execute if webview command in progress
- bugfix in ios.js that left multiple remote debugger objs hanging around
- bumped command timeout since webview commands don't reset it

[ANDROID]
- fix in swipe where steps weren't converted to integers
- "mobile: keyevent" for hitting arbitrary keys
- native back()
- xpath search by "*"
- skip uninstall if --fast-reset set
- better error handling if activity is not found
- match other kinds of button than android.widget.Button with "button"
- allow matching custom class name (partial class name matching)
- relaunch on failure (or on screen cap)
- begun work to get bootstrap in maven
- flick() as an alias of sorts for swipe()

-- changes not tracked before v0.1.3 --