Unable to scroll in Appium using Python with touchaction and UiAutomator

[GalmaJ]

The problem

Unable to scroll in Appium using Python with touchaction and UiAutomator

Environment

• Appium version - 1.10.0 and 1.11.0
• Desktop OS/version used to run Appium: Windows 10
• Node.js version (unless using Appium.app|exe): 10.15.1
• Mobile platform/version under test: 7.0
• Real device or emulator/simulator: Real Device
• Appium Python Client - 0.39

Details

Got below error while trying to scroll using touch action

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Appium_Scripts\Appium_Training\Jabong\testCases\jabongLogin.py", line 42, in test_jabongLogin
actions.press(x=21,y=1681).move_to(x=803, y=782).release().perform()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\appium\webdriver\common\touch_action.py", line 94, in perform
self._driver.execute(Command.TOUCH_ACTION, params)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 319, in execute
response = self.command_executor.execute(driver_command, params)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\remote_connection.py", line 367, in execute
command_info = self._commands[command]
KeyError: 'touchAction'

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Ran 1 test in 17.724s

FAILED (errors=1)

Link to Appium Logs

https://gist.github.com/JhansiGalma/31bb1d33b70c69581a13e6c3f381f289

Code To reproduce issue

actions = TouchAction(self.driver)
actions.press(x=21,y=1681).move_to(x=803, y=782).release().perform()

[KazuCocoa]

[warn] �[35m[Appium]�[39m Consider setting 'automationName' capability to 'UiAutomator2' on Android >= 6, since UIAutomator1 framework is not maintained anymore by the OS vendor.

What about using UIA2 as the above warning?

[GalmaJ]

Thank you, it did work using UIA2.