Release notes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

Introduced enhancements to offer a more powerful user experience.

Traditional Chinese support

The Mobile Automation interface is now available in Traditional Chinese.

Introduced enhancements to offer a more powerful user experience.

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:

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.

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.

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

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

Enhanced the accessibility for the Mobile Device Manager.

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.

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:

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.

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

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

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

Updated internal dependencies to match the newest version of UIAutomation.

Updated internal dependencies to match the newest version of UIAutomation.

Updated internal dependencies to match the newest version of UIAutomation.

Updated internal dependencies to match the newest version of UIAutomation.

Updated internal dependencies to match the newest version of UIAutomation.

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

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

This release provides an update to internal dependencies.

This release provides an update to internal dependencies.

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.

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.

Updated internal dependencies to match the newest version of UIAutomation.

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.

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

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

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.