Hello,
We’ve run across an Appium iOS issue I hope I can get some help with. Everything had been going well with Appium and writing tests until I got to a screen in our app that Appium Inspector can’t see any of the elements on the screen (there’s not even a root element shown in inspector). What’s interesting is that if I use arc, I can find the elements i.e., id(‘xxx’). When I run the test up to a breakpoint in the test and I try id(‘xxx’), it doesn’t find it either even though I can see it on the screen of the app. If I manually tap past the broken screen, on the next screen I can find all the elements.
I’ve read other instances of similar type issues dealing with accessibility on certain elements can cause the elements to be hidden to Appium, but I’ve had our developer try to recreate the same issue in a temporary app and we are not able to recreate.
Xcode: 7.3.1
Appium: 1.5.3
Sim: iPhone 6 (9.1, 9.2, 9.3)
Here is partial xml taken from Appium Inspector. There was too much xml to post so I cut it off up to the first few elements that I can’t interact with. The xml above the horizontal rule I can access with Appium, everything below it I can’t access.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<AppiumAUT>
<UIAApplication name="Something" label="Something" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0" x="0" y="0" width="375" height="667">
<UIAWindow name="" label="" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0" x="0" y="0" width="375" height="667">
<UIANavigationBar name="This is a Place" label="" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0/0" x="0" y="20" width="375" height="44">
<UIAImage name="" label="" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="false" hint="" path="/0/0/0/0" x="0" y="0" width="375" height="64">
<UIAImage name="" label="" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="false" hint="" path="/0/0/0/0/0" x="0" y="64" width="375" height="0.5">
</UIAImage>
</UIAImage>
<UIAButton name="Back" label="Back" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0/0/1" x="8" y="25.5" width="27" height="27">
</UIAButton>
<UIAButton name="" label="" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0/0/2" x="8" y="26" width="47" height="30">
</UIAButton>
<UIAStaticText name="This is a Place" label="This is a Place" value="This is a Place" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0/0/3" x="81" y="28" width="213" height="27">
</UIAStaticText>
<UIAButton name="Great" label="Great" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0/0/4" x="329" y="27" width="30" height="30">
</UIAButton>
</UIANavigationBar>
<UIATableView name="" label="" value="moved to row 2 of 2" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0/1" x="0" y="64" width="375" height="548">
<UIATableCell name="Search" label="" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="false" hint="" path="/0/0/1/0" x="0" y="-116" width="375" height="180">
<UIAStaticText name="Search" label="Search" value="Search" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="false" hint="" path="/0/0/1/0/0" x="0" y="0" width="191" height="18">
</UIAStaticText>
</UIATableCell>
<UIATableGroup name="first_segmented_control" label="" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0/1/1" x="0" y="64" width="375" height="55">
<UIASegmentedControl name="first_segmented_control" label="" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0/1/1/0" x="20" y="77.5" width="335" height="29">
<UIAButton name="FirstButton" label=" FirstButton" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0/1/1/0/0" x="20" y="77.5" width="167" height="29">
</UIAButton>
<UIAButton name="Second Button" label=" Second Button" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0/1/1/0/1" x="188" y="77.5" width="167" height="29">
</UIAButton>
</UIASegmentedControl>
</UIATableGroup>
<UIATableCell name="" label="" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0/1/2" x="0" y="119" width="375" height="498">
<UIATableView name="" label="" value="moved to row 2 of 2" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0/1/2/0" x="0" y="119" width="375" height="497.5">
<UIATableCell name="name_label" label="" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0/1/2/0/0" x="0" y="119" width="375" height="160">
<UIAStaticText name="name_label" label="This is a Hotel" value="This is a Hotel" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0/1/2/0/0/0" x="21" y="211.5" width="272" height="17.5">
</UIAStaticText>
<UIAStaticText name="address_label" label="1316 S Congress Ave, Austin TX 78704" value="1316 S Congress Ave, Austin TX 78704" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0/1/2/0/0/1" x="21" y="229" width="344" height="17.5">
</UIAStaticText>
<UIAStaticText name="hours_label" label="Hours Today: 7:00am - 6:00pm Open" value="Hours Today: 7:00am - 6:00pm Open" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0/1/2/0/0/2" x="21" y="246.5" width="344" height="17.5">
</UIAStaticText>
<UIAStaticText name="distance_to_hotel_label" label="1.0 mi" value="1.0 mi" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0/1/2/0/0/3" x="293" y="211.5" width="58" height="18">
</UIAStaticText>
<UIAMapView name="" label="" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/0/1/2/0/0/4" x="10" y="119" width="355" height="77.5">
<UIAElement name="Current Location" label="Current Location" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="Shows more info" path="/0/0/1/2/0/0/4/0" x="123.5" y="147" width="42" height="44">
</UIAElement>
<UIAElement name="Map pin" label="Map pin" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="Shows more info" path="/0/0/1/2/0/0/4/1" x="179.5" y="123" width="32" height="39">
</UIAElement>
<UIAElement name="" label="" value="" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="false" hint="" path="/0/0/1/2/0/0/4/2" x="10" y="119" width="355" height="77.5">
</UIAElement>
</UIAMapView>
</UIATableCell>
… there’s more xml after this but it’s more of the same, can’t see it.