[maestro] prepare Maestro for an iOS real device

Not complete, but this diff let Maestro run on a real device https://github.com/KazuCocoa/Maestro/compare/main…KazuCocoa:Maestro:real-device?expand=1 with a similar way of https://appium.github.io/appium-xcuitest-driver/latest/guides/run-preinstalled-wda One weird thing is that the server started listening to the port after a while when I launched the app via the app icon on the screen or without xcodebuild. This possible blocking behavior was weird…More

[Appium][maestro] compare running speed in one scenario for iOS

I previously posted an execution time comparison of Maestro and Appium for Android . Let’s compare in iOS as well. I picked up the same scenario from the ruby_lib_core. https://github.com/appium/ruby_lib_core/blob/61b2277ff2e391571b87e6d3931aac9e0ce9e206/test/functional/ios/patch_test.rb#L39-L51 The maestro scenario was: Maestro cannot use the element type directly, so I have replaced it with placeholders. It could potentially detect an unexpected element…More

[Appium] Reduce Animation Flakiness in Appium UIA2 driver

Not new tips, but I’d like to share a small optimization config to reduce animation flakiness in the Appium UIA2 driver. Capabilities: The settings can be configured during a session via the Settings API. It means you can dynamically adjust the config by following your desired scenario. Old post below also addresses waitForIdleTimeout and waitForSelectorTimeout…More

[Appium][maestro] compare running speed in one scenario for Android

I was curious about how Maestro is faster than Appium UIA2. I picked up a scenario from https://github.com/appium/ruby_lib_core/blob/3de46abaa933e6fa813b78192650e1f9ead5a238/test/functional/android/patch_test.rb#L38-L47, which had multiple taps and sending keys. Maestro doesn’t support Unicode, so I switched the keyword to ASCII. It took a total of 30 seconds, as shown below. This ran on an emulator on my local laptop.…More

Learning Model Context Protocol

We have recently seen information related to the Model Context Protocol (MCP). I knew of them some part, but had some small questions. This post is a note for me about that. Below is a summary of our conversation with ChatGPT, as summarized by them. 🔍 Understanding the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Over the course…More

[iOS] Using rvictl for Network Traffic Capture on iOS Devices

Apple publishes Recording a Packet Trace, which explains how to capture packets for macOS and iOS. With the rvictl and tcpdump The combination addressed on the page allows us to capture the network traffic that occurs on a connected iOS device. One note here is about rvictl. The page addresses the functionality as; iOS doesn’t…More

[appium] iOS 18 introduced com.apple.ContactsUI.LimitedAccessPromptView

iOS 18 introduced a new process named com.apple.ContactsUI.LimitedAccessPromptView which is required to handle elements listed in a new contact permissions dialog in iOS 18+. Such elements were not able to be recognized by com.apple.springboard. I haven’t noticed this new behavior when I investigated iOS 18 beta in https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/20239, but https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/758669 told me this new one.…More