iOS/Android driver compatibility issue on a cross-platform testing

Description

I’m using java-client 2.10 in my appium test framework, it’s working good on my environment both for ios and android native application testing, I can reuse almost all the basic method like below:

public static AppiumDriver driver;

public static void setUp() { if (PLATFORM_NAME.equals("ios")){ driver = new IOSDriver(new URL(DRIVER_AGENT),capabilities); } if (PLATFORM_NAME.equals("android")){ driver = new AndroidDriver(new URL(DRIVER_AGENT),capabilities); } }

Then I can create some common method likes ‘click a object name’ for both ios and android

public static void clickObjectByName(final String ObjectName) { driver.findElementByName(ObjectName).click(); }

However, the driver is not working when I upgraded Java-client to 3.4.0 it request to create separately ‘AndDriver’ and ‘iOSDRIVER’ instance, it means that the common methods which I setup in above example could not be reuse again, and I need to setup 2 different test framework for ios and android.

So I think current Java-Client is not friendly for the cross-platform compatibility. can we make some updates?

And I found several people have the same query, here is the link: https://discuss.appium.io/t/ios-android-driver-casting-on-a-shared-test-code-base/1095

[rompic]

    if(driver instanceof AndroidDriver) {
        ((AndroidDriver) driver).toggleLocationServices();
    }

seems to do the trick

[sbjymc]

Got it, thanks @rompic