Serenity-core: Please update io.appium:java-client

[vikramvi]

Kindly update java client to latest version.

Serenity has got 4.0.0 and there are many fixes with latest version.

Thanks,
Vikram

[vikramvi]

@wakaleo please refer to issue

https://github.com/appium/java-client/issues/563

can you please update to latest java appium client ?

[wakaleo]

The latest version (5.0.0-BETA1) has non-trivial breaking API changes (in particular it adds the findElements(by, using) method to the FindsByFluentSelector. This is a protected method of RemoteWebDriver, and is therefore not accessible to the WebElementFacadeImpl class. It is not impossible to implement, but involves non-trivial code changes. I'm happy to consider a PR ;-).

[vikramvi]

Thanks for detailed clarifications.
To start with I'm planning to submit PR for documentation additions related to appium usage with framework.

[vikramvi]

@wakaleo https://github.com/serenity-bdd/serenity-core/blob/bef307ad0c61cabc2f0d4b3157ce0d2985ef200b/gradle.properties

I saw appiumJavaClientVersion = 5.0.0-BETA9 , have you done necessary changes to accomodate appium java latest versions ?

[wakaleo]

Yes.

[vikramvi]

@wakaleo Thanks :)
Can you also please clarify about Appium support with Serenity framework ?

Last time; you informed that as there was no client need; thus you won't be updating Serenity with latest Appium related changes as quickly compared to Selenium.

It will be really helpful if you can provide details of roadmap.

[wakaleo]

For now we intend to keep the client versions up to date (the biggest change was moving to Selenium 3).