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June Ha
June Ha

Reputation: 11

Xamarin.UITest: Retrieving elements hidden from screen

I want to write a UI test for my Xamarin.iOS app to make sure that all tableview elements/cells exist on a screen. I could use app.Query(e => e.All()), but this will only retrieve elements that are currently visible on the screen. Is there a way to retrieve all elements (including the ones hidden from the view) in order to assert that the retrieved elements are as expected, without initiating a scroll action?

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1567

Answers (1)

JimBobBennett
JimBobBennett

Reputation: 2159

There isn't a way to do it directly, but there are methods to scroll list views down to get more items, but the original ones will then be removed from the visual tree.

Table views use cell recycling, so they only creates enough cells to fill the screen. As you scroll cells that are scrolled off the top are 'recycled' and shown on the bottom with new data. This means that the cells of screen actually don't exist - so there is nothing that UI test can access.

I've done it in the past by getting the items and caching some values, scrolling, getting more items, scrolling etc, building up a list of items as I go. Then once there is no more to scroll, checking the values.

Upvotes: 1

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