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UI Automation Activities

Last updated Jul 28, 2025

Release notes

v25.4.1

Release date: July 14, 2025

Bug fixes

Web-based test scenarios on Android devices now execute consistently. Previously, a bug caused unreliable behavior during test runs on Android devices.

v25.4.0

Release date: May 13, 2025

What's new

In the latest update of Mobile Automation, we have upgraded the package to .NET8, offering an improved performance and compatibility with the latest .NET enhancements.
You can now leverage existing connections between a mobile device and an application, using the Use Existing Connection property from the Mobile Device Connection activity. Enabling this property reduces execution time, by using existing connections.

Improvements

We have made a series of performance enhancements aimed at improving the efficiency and stability of the mobile device manager:

Operations now switch context only when necessary.
Frequently used contexts are now stored in memory, with automatic refresh of stale data, reducing redundant queries.
Only untagged WebView elements are processed, cutting down on unnecessary executions.
We have introduced locks to prevent excessive context switching, improving the overall stability.
We optimized the retry timing and reduced the wait on failures.
Package and context data are now cached to avoid repeated and costly queries, particularly on Android.
By default, the uipath:useCachedPageSource capability is enabled to optimize page source retrieval. Visit Managing devices for more information.

Bug fixes

A Computer Vision server URL was required for the local Computer Vision server to work as expected within mobile automation workflows. The issue
Selectors indicated at design time using activities were not identifiable at runtime.
While selecting an object in the mobile device manager, the Computer Vision section of the object selection did not display its contents when selected, or when using the Ctrl + k shortcut. This dropdown list now correctly appears when you right-click or use the Ctrl + K shortcut for variable selection.

v24.10.3

Release date: October 18, 2024

What's new

Directional Swipe activity and API

Perform quick and easy swipes in the mobile application that you are testing, using the Directional Swipe activity and API. Directional Swipe allows you to perform swipe actions for the following pre-defined directions: Up, Down, Left, and Right.

For more information, visit:

Directional Swipe activity
DirectionalSwipe API

Improvements

Starting a device from either the Mobile Device Manager, the Mobile Device Connection activity or the Connect API no longer requires providing an app or an URL. If no app or URL is provided when starting a device, it will launch displaying the homescreen without opening an app.

v24.10.2

Release date: September 5, 2024

We are constantly working to improve your mobile automation experience. Even though there are no significant changes this release, we made minor improvements to the product.

v24.10.1

Release date: August 9, 2024

We are constantly working to improve your mobile automation experience. Even though there are no significant changes this release, we made minor improvements to the product.

v24.10.0

Release date: July 1, 2024

What's new

Mobile Automation APIs and coded workflow support

If you prefer code when building automation, you can now achieve this using coded automations and UiPath services. The Mobile Automation activities package now includes APIs that enable you to create automations for your mobile testing scenarios.

Visit Mobile automation APIs to browse through the available APIs and Coded automation to learn more about coded automations in UiPath® Studio.

Computer vision support for Swipe

You can now use Computer Vision as a selection option when indicating the target of the Swipe activity.

Computer vision for mobile automation available for recordings

You can now use Computer vision for mobile automations from the Mobile Device Manager (MDM), when recording actions. After you connect your device with an application, from the Action bar, select Enable CV recording. Visit Device interaction to check the available actions within MDM.

Improvements

Enhanced the performance of the Mobile Device Manager, making your mobile device automations faster.

For more efficient debugging, you can now copy the output messages from the MDM log.

Bug fixes

Resolved an issue where performing several actions on a connection with UIAutomator2 version 3 caused a WebDriver exception.

v23.10.5

Release date: June 11, 2024

Bug fixes

For some iOS versions and devices, indicating a UI element in the Mobile Device Manager, threw the following error: "Value does not fall within the expected range".
For some iOS versios and devices, selecting a UI element, using the selection options, failed to focus on the indicated element.

v23.10.4

Release date: April 3, 2024

Bug fixes

Resolved an issue where performing several actions on a connection with UiAutomator2 version 3 caused a WebDriver exception.

v23.10.3

Release date: December 21, 2023

Bug fixes

Mobile device connections threw an error when setting the Close mode to either Null or Always.

v23.10.2

Release date: December 6, 2023

Bug fixes

Fixed the issue where workflow activities were not executing in sequential order, when the Mobile Device Manager was opened.

v23.10.1

Release date: November 23, 2023

Bug fixes

Due to a breaking change in the latest Appium versions, the Mobile Device Manager experienced functionality issues. The expected behavior has been restored.

v23.4.3

Release date: November 23, 2023

Bug fixes

Due to a breaking change in the latest Appium versions, the Mobile Device Manager experienced functionality issues. The expected behavior has been restored.

v22.10.6

Release date: November 23, 2023

Bug fixes

Due to a breaking change in the latest Appium versions, the Mobile Device Manager experienced functionality issues. The expected behavior has been restored.

v23.10.0

Release date: October 23, 2023

What's New

Computer Vision for Mobile Automation

Computer Vision uses UiPath's advanced neural network capabilities to enable the seamless identification of UI elements through Robots. Computer Vision empowers you to automate UI elements that were previously challenging to identify and automate. You can use Computer Vision as a selection option when indicating the target for an activity.

The activities that employ Computer Vision are:

Get Text
Set Text
Tap
Element Exists

To start using Computer Vision, you must enable it for mobile automation. Visit Enabling Computer Vision for mobile automation to learn how to enable Computer Vision for your project.

Bug fixes

During the connection to an iOS simulator or real device from Sauce Labs, the pixel ratio of the device failed to update by default in Mobile Device Manager.

Breaking change

The ClearText property from Set Text is always set to True, for all target types. To disable the property, navigate to the Properties panel of the activity, and set the ClearText property to False.

v23.4.2

Release date: June 28, 2023

Bug fixes

During the connection to an iOS simulator or real device from Sauce Labs, the pixel ratio of the device failed to update by default in Mobile Device Manager.

v22.10.5

Release date: June 28, 2023

Bug fixes

During the connection to an iOS simulator or real device from Sauce Labs, the pixel ratio of the device failed to update by default in Mobile Device Manager.

v22.4.6

Release date: June 28, 2023

Bug fixes

During the connection to an iOS simulator or real device from Sauce Labs, the pixel ratio of the device failed to update by default in Mobile Device Manager.

v21.10.7

Release date: June 28, 2023

Bug fixes

During the connection to an iOS simulator or real device from Sauce Labs, the pixel ratio of the device failed to update by default in Mobile Device Manager.

v23.4.1

Release date: May 30, 2023

Improvements

Introduced enhancements to offer a more powerful user experience.

v22.10.4

Release date: May 30, 2023

New features

Traditional Chinese support

The Mobile Automation interface is now available in Traditional Chinese.

Improvements

Introduced enhancements to offer a more powerful user experience.

Bug fixes

Due to an issue with the machine pipes, the Mobile Device Manager couldn't connect to Studio inside a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure environment.

v23.4.0

Release date: April 7, 2023

What's new

Oftentimes proxies interfere with the applications you’re trying to automate mobile testing for. That’s why we made it possible for you to add custom HTTP headers into your testing projects, to ease your mobile automation experience. Custom HTTP headers allow you to work with proxies that accept only certain headers, by specifically adding them.

The Mobile Automation activity package has been divided into two separate activity packages:

UiPath.Mobile.Automation.Activities - This package is used for designing and customizing workflows.
UiPath.Mobile.Automation.Activities.Runtime - This package is used for running workflows.

The purpose of this change is to make mobile automations run faster. If you want to both design and run your mobile automation workflows, make sure to download both packages.

Add whatever text you want inside an active UI element, using the new Type Text activity! This activity takes the content that you type through the keyboard and pastes it into the currently active UI element. The Type Text activity is designed to allow users to input text into UI elements that are otherwise inaccessible via selectors.

The interaction between users and mobile devices is complex, sometimes requiring them to draw paths on the device screen. Now you can accomplish that by using the new Draw Pattern activity! For example, now you can automate unlocking a mobile device pattern, that requires drawing a path on the screen.

Improvements

We have updated the UX for the Swipe and Draw pattern actions in the Mobile Device Manager, providing an improved visual design. When swiping to a predefined location, you can now view the positional swipe on the Mobile Device Manager screen as a line. Additionally, swipe operations performed with Selection by absolute position enabled are imported as a Positional Swipe activity.

Bug fixes

For devices using iOS version 15.4, adding any desired capabilities caused the connection to fail when opening the Start page.
Even if you input a mobile device connection in the Input Connection property field, you were still required to input an Appium Url.

v21.10.6

Release date: December 7, 2022

Improvements

Updated internal dependencies to match the newest version of UI Automation.

v22.10.2

Release date: December 5, 2022

New features

The Mobile Automation user interface is now available in Traditional Chinese.

Improvements

To provide compatibility with Appium 2.0, all known capabilities that are forced inside the AppiumSessionFactory now have an appium: prefix, similarly to the one for Appium 1.0.

Enhanced the accessibility for the Mobile Device Manager.

v22.10.1

Release date: October 24, 2022

Improvements

Target coordinates

The activities that contain a Target selector now support expressions for offsetting a target. You can define these input arguments using Tap Offset.

All positional activities include a Target selector to specify the element position, including a fuzzy selector and a coordinate system.

As part of the new coordinate system, you can now use Device Independent Pixel to indicate targets based on the pixel density of the area. You can use this parameter in the Take Screenshot Part and Positional Swipe activities to run workflows on devices with similar density screens.

Bug fixes

An issue occurring during live mobile executions in Mobile Device Manager caused the mobile connection to be unresponsive.
An error occurred if the Robot executed a test as an Administrator while Studio and Mobile Device Manager, respectively, were opened without elevated privileges.

v22.8.0

Release date: August 26, 2022

Improvements

Automation for React Native Apps

Unable to identify the right elements for your tests? Now you can use the React Native Demo App for iOS to learn how to make specific components automatable.

Build automation for React Native app

Activities

Added two activities to help you make calls to specific API endpoints and execute native mobile commands:

Get Session Identifier: Retrieve the current session identifier to call Appium endpoints through HTTP requests.
Execute Command: Execute native mobile commands such as reading the battery info or dismissing alerts.

You can now take capture rectangle-shaped screenshots on your mobile device screen using Take Screenshot Part.

Added the ability to swipe to a specific location on the screen, with starting and ending points. The Positional Swipe activity is useful for objects that may not be easily automated using the standard Swipe activity due to unconventiona; custom control implementation or an inaccessible web view.

When you configure a device, the Appium Url field now provides an inline error message stating that HTTPS is not supported.

v22.4.5

Release date: August 3, 2022

Improvements

Updated internal dependencies to match the newest version of UI Automation.

v20.10.10

Release date: August 3, 2022

Improvements

Updated internal dependencies to match the newest version of UI Automation.

v21.10.5

Release date: August 3, 2022

Improvements

Updated internal dependencies to match the newest version of UI Automation.

v21.10.4

Release date: May 31, 2022

Improvements

Updated internal dependencies to match the newest version of UIAutomation.

v22.4.4

Release date: May 9, 2022

Improvements

Updated internal dependencies to match the newest version of UIAutomation.

v21.10.3

Release date: February 2, 2022

Improvements

Updated internal dependencies to match the newest version of UIAutomation.

v21.10.2

Release date: December 7, 2021

Improvements

Updated internal dependencies to match the newest version of UIAutomation.

v20.10.9

Release date: December 7, 2021

Improvements

Updated internal dependencies to match the newest version of UIAutomation.

v21.10.1

Release date: October 27, 2021

Improvements

The requests timeline in Mobile Device Management now highlights any request that contains errors. This change helps you identify which requests need further debugging.

v21.4.4

Release date: June 28, 2021

Improvements

.NET 5 support is now enabled for this activity package as part of our overall upgrade to this framework.

v21.4.3

Release date: June 2, 2021

Improvements

This release provides an update to internal dependencies.

v20.10.8

Release date: June 2, 2021

Improvements

This release provides an update to internal dependencies.

v21.4.2

Release date: April 26, 2021

Improvements

Now you can configure the selectors in the Offline Edit mode.

The recorded actions have been repositioned and resized to improve the UX.

The action bar went through UI changes to achieve a more modern look.

The visual graphics for swiping when recording actions has been removed.

Limitations

Mobile Device Manager provides support for native tablet applications however if the application has been initially developed for mobile, the support for the tablet versions is limited.

Bug fixes

Editing an object repository descriptor resulted in an internal project error, terminating the Studio instance.
New log entry added, tracking when the logging is disabled while video recording is enabled.

v20.10.7

Release date: February 7, 2021

Bug fixes

Mobile Device Manager ignored local machine, or Studio and Robot proxy settings.
URLs logged through various set text commands did not include the element ID.

v20.10.6

Release date: December 15, 2020

Bug fixes

Under specific circumstances, the Get Page Source activity returned a broken link.
Targeting elements was not performed correctly in some cases, in the context of running two similar Android devices in Mobile Device Manager.
In some cases, both native and web selectors were injected with an incorrect tag element.
Changing the Studio language would scramble the location coordinates for Set Device Geolocation activities, due to the delimiter symbols being different for distinct languages, consequently, meddling with the location algorithm. This issue has now been addressed.
Selector variables included in a While activity were available only once, during the first instance, making them unavailable for reuse.

v20.4.4

Release date: October 22, 2020

Improvements

Updated internal dependencies to match the newest version of UIAutomation.

v20.10.5

Release date: October 13, 2020

New features and improvements

Advanced debugging, including a timeline for executions and Appium calls, so you can have more control over your testing efforts.

Record on-screen interactions and import them directly in Studio to create mobile automation workflows.

You can now define variables to build dynamic values when you add devices and applications to Mobile Device Manager.

Switch between projects freely by importing or exporting your project, device, and application configurations.

Filtering is now available for your devices and applications.

A large pile of bugs has been swept under a big fix rug.

v20.4.3

Release date: June 26, 2020

Improvements

Updated internal dependencies to match the newest version of UiPath Studio.

v20.4.2

Release date: June 2, 2020

Improvements

Localization has been fixed and is now available for this activity pack in all languages supported by the UiPath Platform.

v20.4.1

Release date: May 6, 2020

New features and improvements

The new Mobile Automation activities pack offers you a suite of actions that make mobile testing very accessible. You can connect to either a local device or an Appium server, simulate all user interactions with a mobile device, as well as send and retrieve logs and information to and from the connected device.