WinAppDriver stopped working for windows application Appium 5+

[PeterExtrapreneur]

Hi!

Im trying hard to update Appium to version 5 and Selenium to 4.20+ but it seems not possible anymore? (Testing target UWP & WPF apps)

As I understand it has Windows-Driver been abandoned by Microsoft? Or will this be fixed in the future? A refactor of my code-base is not optional.

```

AppiumOptions appiumOptions = new AppiumOptions();
appiumOptions.AddAdditionalCapability("app", Path);
appiumOptions.AddAdditionalCapability("deviceName", "WindowsPC");
appiumOptions.AddAdditionalCapability("ms:waitForAppLaunch", 1);
Driver = new WindowsDriver(new Uri("http://127.0.0.1:4723"), appiumOptions);

[anunay1]

Winappdriver is not w3c compliant yet. will not work with selenium 4.

[kadakchdn]

WindowsDriver driver;

    @BeforeTest
    public void setUp() throws MalformedURLException
    {
    	DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
    	capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "Windows");
    	capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "WindowsPC");
      capabilities.setCapability("app", "C:\\Windows\\System32\\calc.exe);
     capabilities.setCapability("automationName", "WinAppDriver");

      URL url = new URL("http://localhost:4723");
     driver = (WindowsDriver)new RemoteWebDriver(url, capabilities);
     
    
    }

I am facing issue with launching the session, can you please the error or any mismatch


org.seleniumhq.selenium
selenium-java
4.1.0


org.testng
testng
7.4.0

io.appium java-client 9.2.3

@anunay1 @PeterExtrapreneur

[anunay1]

Will not work with selenium 4 you need to downgrade to version 3