appium_capybara: How to locate elements on native Android app using ids or accessibility ids

Andrew_Dinh · January 19, 2016, 1:09am

Hi folks,

I searched the web but all example of element locators I found were using either CSS selectors or Xpath. Can someone point me to a documentation with examples that locate elements using accessibility ids or ids on an Android native app please? Thank you!

willosser · January 19, 2016, 7:13pm

I asked just such a question when we were trying to implement Appium in Java:

We decided to go with Ruby. Here’s a simple example of finding an element by resource-id

appium_driver.driver.find_element(:id, id)

Andrew_Dinh · January 20, 2016, 2:13am

Hi Willosser,

Thank you for your response! I was looking to use Site Prism syntax, but it looks like I will have to try other ways unless @bootstrap has anything to say about it.

bootstrap · January 20, 2016, 4:27am

appium_capybara supports the accessibility_id and id locator strategies.

github.com

appium/appium_capybara/blob/697a0004930d1d74e19b6b6603b58300845aaa7c/lib/appium_capybara/ext/selector_ext.rb#L30




Capybara.add_selector(:id) do
  custom(:id) { |locator| locator }
end
Capybara.add_selector(:class) do
  custom(:class) { |locator| locator }
end
Capybara.add_selector(:name) do
  custom(:name) { |locator| locator }
end
Capybara.add_selector(:accessibility_id) do
  custom(:accessibility_id) { |locator| locator }
end

I even have a site prism example.

github.com

appium/appium_capybara/blob/697a0004930d1d74e19b6b6603b58300845aaa7c/example/spec/home_page.rb

module Pages
  class Home < SitePrism::Page
    # UIANavigationBar
    #   name: UICatalog
    elements :navigation_bar, :accessibility_id, 'UICatalog'
  end
end