How to determine the XPATH of Android UI elements. Selenium + Appium

Question

I am currently working on automating an android application using Appium and Selenium and have run into some problems with locating elements by ID. I want to use XPATH but do not know how to get the XPATH of android UI elements. Does anyone know how to determine the XPATH of an element or know of a tool that can do this work quickly? Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use android sdk tool - uiautomatorviewer( https://developer.android.com/tools/testing/testing_ui.html) it's like appium inspector, but work better for me.

Answer 2

com.android2.calculator3:id/digit8

For Elements with id

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

For Elements with class

android.widget.EditText[@index=0]

Syntax

{ClassName}[@{anyAttributeName}={valueOfAttribute}]

Code

driver.findElements(By.className("android.widget.EditText"));//will return ARRAY