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idb integration for Appium
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[question] Is appium-idb used by default in appium? #31

Closed sirghi closed 4 years ago

sirghi commented 4 years ago

I've searched the internet for a clear answer to no avail.

Is appium-idb an alternative to appium-ios-device or libimobiledevice, or are they complementary? I'm using appium version 1.17.0. Is appium-idb used by default in it to communicate with iOS devices and simulator, or you have to set a flag somewhere for it to be used?

Any insight on these aspects would be helpful, as I seem to lack some understanding of the inner workings of Appium, and all its submodules related to iOS.

KazuCocoa commented 4 years ago

launchWithIDB allows xcuitest-driver to install WDA via idb, but it defaults to false. Geolocation for simulator also uses idb as one of methods.

sirghi commented 4 years ago

Thanks. And is there anywhere we can specify it? (Looked through all the capabilities but haven't found anything)

KazuCocoa commented 4 years ago

No. The geolocation method has 3 ways. It tries them one by one until they succeed. idb is in the 2nd way.

sirghi commented 4 years ago

Sorry, I meant about launchWithIDB

KazuCocoa commented 4 years ago

That was only addressed in changelog. I've created a PR to add it https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1206

sirghi commented 4 years ago

Grand. Thanks for that.