Get nested elements Android

[Ramon Cidade]

I'm having a lot dificulty locating elements by xpath on appium with android.

The app I'm testing have a ListView, the ListView have nested LinearLayout elements. Each one of those LinearLayout have TextView and ImageView nested in, something like:

 ListView

    1 - LinearLayout

                 - TextView - value A

                 - ImageView

    2 - LinearLayout

                 - TextView - value B

                 - ImageView

    3 - LinearLayout

                 - TextView - value C

                 - ImageView

By logic a xpath similar to "//ListView/LinearLayout[1]/TextView" should return the element with "A" in value, and a xpath like "//ListView/LinearLayout[2]/TextView" should return "B". But that doesn't work :(

Am I messing up at some point?

Thanks!

[Satyajit Malugu]

Quick guess, should the bolded below be 0 and 1?

Ramon Cidade

February 24, 2014 at 12:49 PM

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[Jonathan Lipps]

Hilariously, XPath is 1-indexed

[Ramon Cidade]

So anyone can help me? I'm using the uiautomatorviewer to inspect elements... Am I writing this wrong? I really need a way to use this correctly

Thanks!

[Aniket Gadre]

Why don't you just fetch the collection of layouts and get one of them using index and then find its children

Driver. Findelements(by. Tagname("linear")) [0].findelement(by.tagname("textview"))

Just an example... Tagnames may vary

[Jonathan Lipps]

Also, what if you try "//list/linear[1]/text"? I think if you use "LinearLayout" you might need to fully qualify it, e.g., "android.widget.LinearLayout"

[Ramon Cidade]

I guess I already have tried this, but I'll try anyway... seems that the tree of elements appium finds is diferent from the tree that uiautomator show... Thanks anyway guys, if doesn't work I post again.

[Ramon Cidade]

I'll try locating this way... I guess I should use appium inspector even for android for better results?