Ways to "click" or tap on mobile devices using Browserstack and Selenium

Question

I have a test code that works with Browserstack and basically plays a video on a page.

playBackButton = _webDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@aria-label='Start Playback']"))
try{
        playBackButton.click();
}

Which works fine except on mobile devices it logs a click in the log, but the video doesn't start. No exception, just doesn't play.

Can someone show a working example of sending taps to mobile devices running in Browserstack?

Answer 1

When running tests on ios devices, please ensure you are using the capability:

 caps.setCapability("nativeWebTap",true);

and the driver should be an instance of IOSDriver

IOSDriver driver = new IOSDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), caps);

Similarly, for Android, ensure you are using AndroidDriver

AndroidDriver<AndroidElement> driver = new AndroidDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), caps);

Working sample for iOS with xpath:

 caps.setCapability("nativeWebTap",true);
 IOSDriver driver = null;
 try {
     driver = new IOSDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), caps);
  } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
 }

 driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
 driver.get("http://stackoverflow.com");
 WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.xpath("(//div[@class='-details'])[1]"));
 ele.click();
 driver.quit();