Can we find element by ID in appium

Question

following link mentions that we can find element by giving id... but i am unable to find it.

https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/finding-elements.md

find by "name" (i.e., the text, label, or developer-generated ID a.k.a 'accessibilityIdentifier' of an element)

i tried following code:

WebElement el = driver.findElement(By.name("txtLogin")); 

where txtLogin is id for login button

it gives following exception:

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters. (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information) 

can please anyone explain what are all the ways there to find elements in appium

Answer 1

You can use element ID as following:-

package name : com.example.testap

Element ID : txtLogin

write the following code -

 driver.findElement(By.id("com.example.testapp:id/txtLogin")).sendKeys("abc"); 

Answer 2

Here is the jave code with most common ways to locate elements using Appium

//Find element by id and enter Hello in Text box.      driver.findElementById("edit_name").sendKeys("Hello");     //Find element by class name and enter Hello in Text box.       driver.findElementByClassName("com.android.EditText").sendKeys("Hello");     //Find element by xpath and enter Hello in Text box.      driver.findElementByXPath("//cass[@value='Enter Name']").sendKeys("Hello");     //Find element by link text and enter Hello in Text box.      driver.findElementByLinkText("Enter Name").sendKeys("Hello"); 

If you want to learn more ways to find elements in appium for native and webviews VISIT HERE