Find element by object id in Android

[satyajit malugu]

This is image from hierarchy viewer


I want to be able to find it by 'home'.

I tried find_element(:name, 'home') and find_element(:id, 'home'). This is using ruby bindings.

This is what is going through to appium
Pushing command to appium work queue: ["find",{"strategy":"name","selector":"home","context":"","multiple":false}]

I don't want to find by tag name and if possible avoid xpath. 

[bootstrap online]

It's not possible to find elements by id when using uiautomator on Android. They're only accessible when using instrumentation. I'm working on a fix for this by preprocessing the APK to extract ids.

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[bootstrap online]

I should mention the expected solution to this problem is attaching content descriptions to elements.
https://github.com/bootstraponline/android_content_description

[satyajit malugu]

That's very clever. Are you planning to use res/*.xml files for extracting these?

bootstrap online wrote:

I should mention the expected solution to this problem is attaching
content descriptions to elements.
https://github.com/bootstraponline/android_content_description


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:51 PM, bootstrap online
<ma...@bootstraponline.com <mailto:ma...@bootstraponline.com>> wrote:

    It's not possible to find elements by id when using uiautomator on
    Android. They're only accessible when using instrumentation. I'm
    working on a fix for this by preprocessing the APK to extract ids.


    On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:46 PM, satyajit malugu <sa...@malugu.com

    <mailto:sa...@malugu.com>> wrote:

        This is image from hierarchy viewer

        I want to be able to find it by 'home'.

        I tried find_element(:name, 'home') and find_element(:id,
        'home'). This is using ruby bindings.

        This is what is going through to appium
        Pushing command to appium work queue:
        ["find",{"strategy":"name","selector":"home","context":"","multiple":false}]

        I don't want to find by tag name and if possible avoid xpath.

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[bootstrap online]

Yes. I'm currently using only res/strings.xml however I can easily support them all if there's a benefit.

[satyajit malugu]

I am not too familiar with strings.xml but in our app, we have several xml files under different folders rooted under res.
Drawable, color, layout etc..
Though I am not sure if we have any value munging all these files.

bootstrap online wrote:

Yes. I'm currently using only res/strings.xml however I can easily
support them all if there's a benefit.


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:59 PM, satyajit malugu <sa...@malugu.com
<mailto:sa...@malugu.com>> wrote:

    That's very clever. Are you planning to use res/*.xml files for
    extracting these?

    bootstrap online wrote:

    I should mention the expected solution to this problem is attaching
    content descriptions to elements.
    https://github.com/bootstraponline/android_content_description


    On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:51 PM, bootstrap online
    <ma...@bootstraponline.com <mailto:ma...@bootstraponline.com>

    <mailto:ma...@bootstraponline.com

    <mailto:ma...@bootstraponline.com>>> wrote:

        It's not possible to find elements by id when using
    uiautomator on
        Android. They're only accessible when using instrumentation. I'm
        working on a fix for this by preprocessing the APK to extract
    ids.


        On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:46 PM, satyajit malugu
    <sa...@malugu.com <mailto:sa...@malugu.com>

    <mailto:sa...@malugu.com <mailto:sa...@malugu.com>>> wrote:

            This is image from hierarchy viewer


            I want to be able to find it by 'home'.

            I tried find_element(:name, 'home') and find_element(:id,
    'home'). This is using ruby bindings.

            This is what is going through to appium
            Pushing command to appium work queue:
          
    ["find",{"strategy":"name","selector":"home","context":"","multiple":false}]

            I don't want to find by tag name and if possible avoid xpath.

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[bootstrap online]

I have those also however so far I only needed values from string.xml.

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[bootstrap online]

I completed the gem. Let me know if it works for you.
https://github.com/bootstraponline/strings_from_apk_gem

[Brian Hoffart]

Have you started the id from apk by chance? My app has mostly uses IDs and I need a way to located them directly. If any changes are made to the UI, xpath and tagnames might not work.

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[bootstrap online]

This feature is now in Appium's server and it works well. There's no
need to use Ruby or have a gem installed.

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[Brian Hoffart]

can you give me a quick example java code on it..? Id greatly appreciate it.

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[bootstrap online]

The standard find by id will work in Java. The Ruby examples are here:
https://github.com/appium/ruby_lib_android/blob/master/lib/android/specs/android/helper.rb#L82

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[Brian Hoffart]

But it does not work. I want to be able to point to elements in the gen R.ID.java file of my android app. When I used driver.findElement(By.id("someID')); it pulls from R.String.java

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[bootstrap online]

R.ID requires Selendroid.
http://dominikdary.github.io/selendroid/

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Brian Hoffart

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[Brian Hoffart]

ahhhh. thank you

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[Brian Hoffart]

did you mean selendroid by itself or that +appium?

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[bootstrap online]

Appium uses Selendroid when the device is set to selendroid.

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[Marius Bob]

So, how could be accessed the elements that have their IDs defined in the layout file?

For the ContactManager application I see that the “Add Contact” button has the ID addContactButton => so I want to perform a click by finding this ID and NOT the text on the button because the texts might change.

 

Is it possible? As I know this is possible with selendroid…but the button is not found when writing the test.

[bootstrap online]

Find by id works with selendroid.

[Marius BoB]

Thank you for you support.
I've set the device to selendroid and now I have another error:

error: Error: Command failed: error: cannot bind to socket

info: Overriding session id with ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

error: Failed to start an Appium session, err was: Error: Command failed: error: cannot bind to socket

info: Responding to client with error: {"status":6,"value":{"message":"A session is either terminated or not started (Original error: Command failed: error: cannot bind to socket\n)","killed":false,"code":1,"signal":null,"origValue":"Command failed: error: cannot bind to socket\n"},"sessionId":null}
POST /wd/hub/session 500 8834ms - 307
info: Clearing out appium devices
info: Clearing out any previous sessions

[bootstrap online]

Another appium may be running. Try killall -9 node

[Marius BoB]

nothing's changed.

the output after running the test is as follows:
org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure.
Build info: version: '2.26.0', revision: '18040', time: '2012-11-02 09:44:45'
System info: os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.7.5', java.version: '1.7.0_25'
Driver info: driver.version: SelendroidDriver

the only thing that should be changed is app-device from Android to selendroid?

Should I instantiate the driver object as SelendroidDriver?

[bootstrap online]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Marius BoB <znu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> the only thing that should be changed is app-device from Android to
> selendroid?

I think so. It works for me so I'm not sure why it's failing on your system.

[Dan Cuellar]

Instantiate as RemoteWebDriver