Accessing the EditText password field

[Marius Bob]

I’ve noticed that for password fields in Android, uiautomator(and obviously also Appium) couldn’t find the key located in the strings.xml file.

As you can see from the screenshots attached, the value of the password field(the hint string) is not visible.

So, if I want to find the element by using the key from the strings.xml file, the test will fail.

 

Is there a way to fix this issue on the layout file?

I did some research on internet and it seems there are some issues. I’m asking about this, maybe anyone could give me a point in solving this.

 

A quick workaround would be to get all the EditTexts fields in a list and access them by their index….

 

Thanks!

-Marius

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Igor Gladun]

https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/244

пятница, 24 января 2014 г., 14:09:04 UTC+2 пользователь Bob Marius написал:

[bootstrap online]

I suggest using a resource id.

<!-- res/layout/login.xml -->
android:id="@+id/my_password"

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[Marius Bob]

Yes, but this will imply using Selendroid and didn’t write the tests with selendroid. I’m trying to make use of localizable.strings and strings.xml since I have the same app for both iOS and Android platforms and dev team struggled create a match for all the keys from the two files J.

That’s a weird a bit, but I’ll make it work somehos :P

 

 

Thanks!

[bootstrap online]

I'm using resource ids with uiautomator.

[Marius Bob]

Are you referring to this: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/uiautomator/UiSelector.html#resourceId(java.lang.String)  ?

 

What if my test project is not an Android project?

[bootstrap online]

For successful cross platform automation, you'll need:

Android

- strings.xml
- content descriptions
- resource id

iOS

- Localizable.strings
- accessibility identifiers / accessibility labels

 Localizable.strings should match strings.xml. The content descriptions / resource ids should match up with accessibility labels and identifiers.

[Marius Bob]

Thanks for your information.

But I didn’t understand how is possible to access the resource ids with uiautomator in your tests..

I’m pretty sure, something is missing to me J

[bootstrap online]

Use the standard find by id. That will look for resource ids or strings.xml ids on Android.

[Marius Bob]

I have the following EditText in the layout file:

 

    android:id="@+id/signin_password"

                android:hint="@string/signIn.password.placeholder"

 

And I get an error when I try to find the element by id(not using Selendroid).

[bootstrap online]

Use uiautomatorviewer to get the correct id. 

[Marius Bob]

With uiautomatorviewer I see “com.mywebgrocer.Albertsons:id/signin_password” as the value of resource-id….

But the element is still not found …

 

Device’s android version is 4.4.2, so it should alright

[bootstrap online]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Marius Bob <znu...@gmail.com> wrote:

com.mywebgrocer.Albertsons:id/signin_password

If you find by id using "com.mywebgrocer.Albertsons:id/signin_password" on an API 18 device, it should work.