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Shankar Garg, Appium Recipes, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2418-2_4

4. Automating Mobility

Shankar Garg

(1)Gurgoan, Haryana, India

In this chapter, you will learn to automate the following:

  • Tap mobile elements

  • Drag and drop elements

  • Swipe and scroll

  • Manage device orientation

  • Install and uninstall native apps

  • Lock and unlock devices

  • Manage device network settings

In previous chapters, you learned to use Appium to automate different types of apps on different devices. To automate mobile apps, automating gestures (such as tapping, scrolling, swiping, and so on) is of utmost importance.

In earlier versions of Appium, you had to combine some generic functions to perform these complex functions, but in the latest versions, specific functions such as ...

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