Appium inspctor works fine but the same element unable to locate via automation code

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I am trying to locate an element using appium inspector which I can find it via appium inspector but unable to find it via code. I get the error no such element exception.
I tried using wait for display, exist, enabled all those methods but still got the same error.
But when locating the same element via inspector it can find it.

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to help others better understand your issue:

  1. write your code how you looking for element
  2. write page source after your code fails to find element
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My code

await page.checkBox1.waitForDisplayed({ timeout: 30000, interval: 10 })
await page.checkBox1.click();

Page object
get checkBox1() {
return $('//android.widget.TextView[contains(@text," contract and hereby sign")]/parent::*/child::*[position()=last()-4]')
} –

above one worked

when I used accessibility id or xpath suggested by appium inspector as shown in the below screenshot I was getting no such element exception.

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So I am wondering why it was throwing an error.

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Such query will be problematic to find in any case. I can try suggest more robust if you provide FULL page source. Better as link to https://gist.github.com/