Difference between FIndElementByID and FIndElementByAccessibilityID

[Venkatesh Ch]

Hello All.

I am curios to know what actually difference exists between FIndElementByID and FIndElementByAccessibilityID ?

In what scenarios  we use  FIndElementByAccessibilityID 

Please share your Knowledge on this.

Thanks 

[bootstrap online]

FIndElementByID looks for all ids. AccessibilityID is only one type of id

[Kamesh Raj Velu]

Is  FIndElementByAccessibilityID faster than FIndElementByID?

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 6:29 AM, bootstrap online <ma...@bootstraponline.com> wrote:

FIndElementByID looks for all ids. AccessibilityID is only one type of id

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[bootstrap online]

They should be the same speed in appium 1.2 (not yet released). I
optimized FindElementByID. In the current appium release,
FindElementByAccessibilityID will be about twice as fast.

[David Turner]

For android at least FIndElementByID uses the resource-id: to find things. as of 1.2.0 

driver.findElementById("com.google.android.youtube:id/ok"); 

would give you the OK button on the youtube app

[Jeffrey Blaze]

How does one call those methods? All I see for a RemoteWebDriver are findElement and findElements

[Narasimha Rao]

Hai 

 if we wana use FindElementByAccessibilityID() which id we are suppose to give can we give the resource id here also  

[Barnabás Oláh]

Which platform?

On Android findElement(s)ByAccessabilityId() searching for the given string in the contentDescription tag. <-- there is somethink like this called on iOS, too. As I remember it's hint or label.

[David Turner]

As of 1.0 release you need create "protected static AppiumDriver"
driver not a RemoteWebDriver.

AppiumDriver is a extension of RWD and includes the new functions.

http://appium.io/slate/en/v1.0.0/?java#toc_100

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