Jonathan Lipps

Please provide a full set of logs. We can't tell what you're saying is going wrong. It's probably best to instead open issues at https://github.com/appium/appium/issues and fill out the issue...

You can always set settings in capabilities like this: `appium:settings[enforceXPath1]` set to `true`

As the README points out, you'll need the uiauto2 driver at 4.25.0 or greater, which is only available in Appium 2.

Why don't we make this sensitive to a setting/capability?

Yes, unfortunately the underlying classes only allow setting or clearing of text, not entering one character at a time. It's not webdriver spec-compliant for this reason. Presumably however even doing...

Makes sense. We'll keep looking for a way to do things character-by-character

Seems like a signing error. Did you try uninstalling any old version first? Otherwise, looks like you may need to run apksigner on the artifacts.

there's code in appium that allows it to resign things. and anyway if you just downloaded the uia2 apks, they'll have been signed with appium's cert, and your app certainly...

> Is there any way to use latest server apk to test? Yes: upgrade to Appium 2

Can you try the W3C action API instead of the old TouchAction API?