android attributes

[Teemu Kanstrén]

Hello,

 Is there a list of what attributes I can access on Android UI elements from Appium? I would like to read at least the "content-desc" value but why not the rest of the info in the "Node Detail" view of uiautomatorviewer. I noticed previously some discussion on using find(By.name("content-desc")) to find a component with specific value but this is not quite what I need. I have some dynamic content and would prefer to read the attributes to get a better idea which of the elements I find is which.. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Teemu

[Vic Wong]

Not sure about appium's native android automation engine, If you're using selendroid (by setting device=selendroid in your capabilities), the supported locators are listed here:

http://selendroid.io/native.html

It supports xpath, so you can technically search by attributes with expressions like By.xpath("//SearchBox[@id='search_box']")

-v

[shikha agrawal]

Hi Teemu,

I faced the similar issue as yours and tried to get the value of the content-desc using driver.findelement(By.className("<className>")).getAttribute("content-desc") but it returned null everytime. Please let me know if you happen to find out a way to read the value of the dynamic properties.

Thanks,

Shikha

[Jonathan Lipps]

It's this:

driver.findelement(By.className("<className>")).getAttribute("name")

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[Teemu Kanstrén]

Thanks. This seems to work. 

Also, I had a look at the Appium source so it seems the supported attributes are "content-desc" with "name", which gives the content-desc if set and "text" attribute value if "content-desc" is not set. Other supported string attributes to query as far as I see are "text" and "className". And a whole bunch of boolean attributes are supported as well. It seems Appium supports most of the attributes available in UIAutomators UIObject so I guess I just got confused with the attribute naming of content-desc here.

Maybe some basic API doc would be nice to document all these. But I got this one sorted now, so thanks..

Teemu