Appium Select Element by ID

Question

I am trying to convert my SeeTest suite to Appium, but I'm having one large issue:

I can't select elements by their @id attribute. When I try to select by ID, it says "element not found". When I view the apk through uiautomateviewer, no element @ids are visible.

SeeTest requires an apk to be an "instrumented" in order to select by @id. Is there any equivalent of "instrumentation" for Appium?

Answer 1

A good rule of thumb is that if it does not appear in the Appium inspector, do no use it. What you could do is something along the lines of:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//<UIElementType[contains(@<identifier>, '<identifier value>')]>");

Where identifier can be

• name or content-desc

• label

• text

and a few more.

Hopefully this will help with your changes.

Answer 2

public void athenaclick(String element) {
    WebElement webElement = driver.findElement(By.id(element));
    webElement.click();
    System.out.println("Click element: "+element);
}   

In seetest when you instrument you get extra properties which might not be available when in appium eg: text colour as seetest is a paid tool and appium is a open source.