Different way to Scroll in Appium in Android and IOS devices.

April 21, 2016 by Mukesh Otwani 104 Comments

Welcome back to Appium tutorials in this post we will discuss how to scroll in Appium.

Recently I got an application where I had to scroll down to click on that element.

I have worked on web application automation extensively so I used to do with JavaScript Executor.

If you have never used Java Script Executor then I would highly recommend to check below the article.

Java Script usage in Selenium

It helped me for Highlighting elements, Scroll into View, Scroll pages and so on.

But I become helpless when I switched to Mobile application because above methods were not working for me.

Methods for Scroll in Appium

I did some googling and found that AndroidDriver class has inbuilt method which performs scroll till the element not found.

Please check the Appium reference where you can find multiple articles on Appium

Complete Appium guide for IOS and Android

Please check below Screenshot.

First Method-

As you can see the description this will scroll until element not found with text.

Scroll in Appium

Second Method

This method also will perform scroll method but this will search for exact text for scrolling.

Scroll in Appium

Program for Scroll in Appium

public class TestHybrid5 
{

	private static AndroidDriver driver;
	 
	public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException, InterruptedException 
	{
	 
	 
	File classpathRoot = new File(System.getProperty("user.dir"));
		
	File appDir = new File(classpathRoot,"/app");
	
	File app = new File(appDir,"appname.apk");

	
	 // Create object of DesiredCapabilities class                             
	 
	DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
	 
	capabilities.setCapability("app", app.getAbsolutePath());
	 
	// Optional
	 
	capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "");
	 
	 
	// Specify the device name (any name)
	 
	capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "My New Phone");
	 
	 
	// Platform version
	 
	capabilities.setCapability("platformVersion", "6.0");
	 
	 
	// platform name
	 
	capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "Android");
	 
	 
	// specify the application package that we copied from appium                
	
	capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "app Package name");
	 
	 
	// specify the application activity that we copied from appium                   
	capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", "specify the activity here");
	 
	 
	// Start android driver default it will be 4723
	 
	driver = new AndroidDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);
	 
	 
	// Specify the implicit wait of 5 second
	 
	driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
	 
	
	// scrollTo("") this method will scroll automatically until specific text is not matching.
        // We have two methods so depends on your requirement you can use accordingly.
	driver.scrollTo("SAVE");
	
	driver.findElement(By.id("app_id_screen_save_button")).click();
	
	
	
	 
	}
}

This is very small article but a very helpful. Try from your side and let me know if an issue in Appium.

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