Appium - get all items in UiScrollable (including not visible)

Question

I need to verify text for all items in list (inside UiScrollable) using Appium. Following approaches are not working for me:

1. driver.findElements(MobileBy.id("com.author.app:id/title")) - returns only currently visible elements (do not perform scroll till the end of list)

2. I know the way for verifying one item even when it's not visible (scroll is performed through the whole list)

    WebElement element =  driver.findElement(MobileBy.AndroidUIAutomator("new UiScrollable("
                    + "new UiSelector().scrollable(true)).scrollIntoView("
                    + "new UiSelector().textContains(\"MyText\"));"))

But it's just for one predefined item.

3. I know there are some methods like getChildByText/getChildByDescription but they require some text (when I need to get all items).

So is there any way to get all list items (including scroll to items that are not currently visible)?

Answer 1

There are two ways to do it . It will scroll up or down depending on your elements visibility

    ThreadLocalDriver.getTLDriver().findElement(MobileBy.AndroidUIAutomator("new UiScrollable(new UiSelector().scrollable(true).instance(0)).scrollIntoView(new UiSelector().textContains(\""+element+"\").instance(0))"));

    ThreadLocalDriver.getTLDriver().findElement(MobileBy.AndroidUIAutomator("new UiScrollable(new UiSelector().scrollable(true).instance(0)).scrollIntoView(new UiSelector().textMatches(\"" + element + "\").instance(0))"));