Identifying Android UI elements

[Jeffrey Blaze]

I've got an Android UI element that looks like this in source:

                    "@enabled" : "true",

                    "@focusable" : "false",

                    "@index" : "0",

                    "@text" : "Your Rewards",

                    "@checkable" : "false",

                    "@package" : "com.kabam.sdk.sample",

                    "@scrollable" : "false",

                    "@class" : "android.widget.TextView",

                    "@password" : "false",

                    "@long-clickable" : "false",

                    "@bounds" : "[97,73][360,122]",

                    "@selected" : "false",

                    "@content-desc" : "",

                    "@clickable" : "false",

                    "@focused" : "false",

                    "@checked" : "false"

Appium Inspector finds it thusly:

wd.findElement(By.xpath("//list[1]/linear[1]/relative[1]/text[1]"))

This also works:

 wd.findElement(By.xpath("//list[1]/linear[1]/relative[1]/textView[1]"))

Note that getText() works correctly for these two.

As much as I like using paths, those won't suffice.  I have tried the following without success:

wd.findElement(By.xpath("//list[1]/linear[1]/relative[1]/text[@text='Your Rewards']"))

wd.findElement(By.xpath("//list[1]/linear[1]/relative[1]/textView[@text='Your Rewards']"))

wd.findElement(By.xpath("//list[1]/linear[1]/relative[1]/text[text()='Your Rewards']"))

wd.findElement(By.xpath("//list[1]/linear[1]/relative[1]/textView[text()='Your Rewards']"))

wd.findElement(By.xpath("//list[1]/linear[1]/relative[1]/text[@value='Your Rewards']"))

wd.findElement(By.xpath("//list[1]/linear[1]/relative[1]/textView[@value='Your Rewards']"))

Any ideas as to how to access that element based on its text value?  There is a table (iOS-centric) of type shortcuts in https://github.com/jaykz52/mechanic/blob/master/src/mechanic-core.js

that is generally useful for building Selenium locators, but it doesn't help me here.

[Jonathan Lipps]

Can you reproduce this at all in the ApiDemos test app?

I would have thought these two would have worked:

[Jeffrey Blaze]

No, I haven't looked at that app.  I'll try it.

I did find out, though, that the UI element in question does not have its content-desc attribute populated.  If the use of content-desc is analogous to the use of the accessibility attribute in iOS land, elements without that attribute will not be accessible by the usual means.

[bootstrap online]

There's an Android method to find by text that works even without
content-desc. Using the appium_lib gem, you'd find this element with
text('Your Rewards')

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[Jeffrey Blaze]

I can't find the ApiDemos app.  In /test/functional/apidemos/findElement.js there is this reference to it:

../../../sample-code/apps/ApiDemos/bin/ApiDemos-debug.apk")

but it is not there.  Nor can I find it anywhere else in the repo.

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Jonathan Lipps <jli...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Jeffrey Blaze]

Thanks for that.  I installed the gem (by following instructions at https://github.com/appium/ruby_lib).  Now what? How do I make my Java program aware of the capability provided by the gem?  And then what would my driver.findElement call look like?

[bootstrap online]

The appium_lib gem is only for Ruby. You'd have to translate the
individual method to Java.
https://github.com/appium/ruby_lib/blob/master/lib/appium_lib/android/element/generic.rb#L70

I think we need an Appium lib for Java to make this easier for people.
The api demos apk is here.
https://github.com/appium/ruby_lib_android/blob/master/api.apk

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Jeffrey Blaze