Appium inspector is not able to locate iOS app custom objects

Question

I am using Appium to automate a iOS mobile app, for few elements, Appium inspector is not able to locate XPATH.

I have read that this is because Appium uses Instruments and that can only locate iOS standard objects but not custom objects.

I appreciate any suggestion/help on this.

Example: Need to locate XPATH for radio button in following

Answer 1

Setting the Accessibility Identifier to each element would solve the issue.

You can do it in Interface builder or programatically

view.AccessibilityIdentifier = "CreditCardTextField";

You don't have to use xpath you can just use this as id for the view.