Imposible to click on XCUIElementTypeStaticText element in iOS

[Dvorah]

Hi,

I am building a test automation system on iOS and I am having issues when trying to click on element which is : XCUIElementTypeStaticText.

Info about my system:

• using Appium desktop 1.17.1
• iOS 13.6.1
• iphone 7
• code in Java
• framework cucumber and testNG

Here is my xpath for the element I want to click on:
/XCUIElementTypeStaticText[@name=“Continue with Email”]
There is also an accessibility id = Continue with Email
I cannot manage to click on this button.

So far what I tried and did not work:

1. using javascript executor --> not working, impossible to click
2. using the xpath —> not working, I cannot click
3. using this solution that I found on the appium forum:
   MobileElement mobileElement = (MobileElement) platform.getIosDriver().findElement(MobileBy.iOSNsPredicateString(“type == ‘XCUIElementTypeStaticText’ AND name == '” + “Continue with Email” + “’ AND visible == 1”))
   mobileElement.click();

When I am running:
System.out.println(platform.getIosDriver().getPageSource()); for all the page here is the result I am getting from this part of the app…This element is inside a Button element which has no accessiblity id.

Is it possible to have some advice or help?

If this element type (XCUIElementTypeStaticText ) cant be clicked I can ask the developers to put an accessibility id for the button.

thanks a lot for the help and advice !
Dvorah

[pothurajtharun]

Have u resolved the issue ?

If not , can you share the appium inspector screen shot by pointing out the element you are tryign to perform click operation.

Have you tried with touch actions ? Is the property clickable is true or false for this XCUIElementTypeStaticText ?

[Dvorah]

hi!
Thanks for answering.
So far no I have not fixed it…I tried touch action, I tried tap…I tried a lot of things so far :-)>
I am wondering If I should not just ask the developers to put an accessibility id into the Button Element…if they put an accessibility id in the Button then I could be able to interact with it:

Attached is one of the screenshot for appium inspector ( and visible = false).

Thanks in advance for the help and advice!
Dvorah

[pothurajtharun]

Try this similar to your problem:

iOS Visible=false, event elements are visible on screen

Appium: 1.13.0 XCode: 10.2 iOS: 12.1 Device (Simulators): iPhone 6, iPhone X I have native iOS app. And if I look through source code using GUI Appium. Some of XCUIElementTypeCell and XCUIElementTypeStaticText have attribute “visible=false”, but all of them are displayed. This is only happening one page of the app, other pages work fine. Concern is about: How can I do typical actions with them. How is it possible? What changes should Development team make to resolve this issue?

Make sure you are using compatiible versions of XCode and iOS OS.

[Dvorah]

thanks!
I already tried to apply some of the solution described in the case but it did not work.
What do you mean by a compatibility between XCode and iOS OS? I am not using XCode…I just used it to install WebDriverAgent on the phone.
Is it the issue? I am new to iOS automation so maybe I am missing some things here.

Thanks for all the help and support,
Dvorah

[pothurajtharun]

When i faced a similar issue related to perform click action my issue was fixed using latest versions of Xcode to install WDA and iOS OS. In ur case iOS 13.6.1is latest OS so i adviced you to use latest version of Xcode as well.

If nothing works ask dev to make visible property to true and give a try once.

[Dvorah]

ok! thanks a lot for all the advice! Dvorah

[SCoureFoure]

Make sure that clickable area of the button is overlapping the element. I find that sometimes I need to center click elements to get them to proc the trigger.
def tap_center_element(ele)
position = ele.get_position
center_x = position[:end_x] / 2
center_y = position[:end_y] / 2
Appium::TouchAction.new($driver).tap(x: center_x, y: center_y).perform
end

or something