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Varun Bali
Varun Bali

Reputation: 183

Appium Android How to tap using the TEXT value

I want to play a song by making Appium tap the song name. Is there a code which can allow me to tap any element by using the TEXT field? I cannot use the resource id field here as there will be multiple songs later on. I tried using By.xpath("//android.widget.EditText[@text='"+song name+"']"); but that did not work.

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Upvotes: 6

Views: 23363

Answers (5)

Doğaç
Doğaç

Reputation: 66

In xPath 2 if you use Appium inspector with python you can use

//*[contains(@text, 'Song Name')]

that will only search for the text that contains the song name and it doesn't have to be exact same value. example :

els1 = driver.find_elements(by=AppiumBy.XPATH, value="//*[contains(@text, 'Song Name' )]")

if you want to use for the exact text value you can use

//*[@text= 'Song Name']"

Upvotes: 1

Prajeeth Anand
Prajeeth Anand

Reputation: 77

There is no need to using custom xpath for this.
First you have to take all the elements with that resource ID and click on required element if it contains the text on which you want to click.
You can use the below code.

    List<WebElement> elements = driver.findElements(By.id("resource-id"));
    For(WebElement element:elements)
    {
        if(element.getText().equals("textProperty"))
        {
            element.click();
            break;
        }
    }

Upvotes: 2

Varun Bali
Varun Bali

Reputation: 183

Found the solution. I had to write the following code in my test:

capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.AUTOMATION_NAME, AutomationName.ANDROID_UIAUTOMATOR2);

Now I can use the TEXT value by writing that song name in the XPath like this:

By.xpath("//*[@text='" + element + "']");

Here element is the text value shown in UIAutomatiorViewer.

Upvotes: 6

barbudito
barbudito

Reputation: 578

If @bsk answer is not working. It might be because of a new line break...

Could you try this to verify?

By.xpath("//android.widget.TextView[contains(@text, 'Ishq De Fanniyar (Female)')]");

Also is not a bad practice to use @resource-id too...

By.xpath("//android.widget.TextView[@resource-id='com.xefyr.ridez:id/tv_song_title' and contains(@text, 'Ishq De Fanniyar (Female)')]");

Upvotes: 0

bsk
bsk

Reputation: 215

You have got the class name wrong in the xpath.

It should be the following based on what I see on uiautomatorviewer

By.xpath("//android.widget.TextView[@text='"+songname+"']");

Upvotes: 5

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