Click() is not working with selenium 4.12.0 and appium-python-client 2.11.1

#1

We automate tests on mobile , everything worked fine with -
selenium version -3.14
Appium python client - .48
appium desktop version - 1.22.3
python - 3.8.5

 **self.driver.find_element_by_id(AppiumBy.ID, locator).click()**

But after updating to selenium version to 4.X , the click method is not working.

selenium - 4.12.0
Appium python client - 2.11.1

a = self.driver.find_element(AppiumBy.ID, locator)
** a.click()**

It works if I repeat this step “a.click()” twice like below:
a = self.driver.find_element(AppiumBy.ID, locator)
** a.click()**
** a.click()**

Please let me know what could be the possible issue and is there any alternate way to click on element.

#2

Not sure what the issue is and why it doesn’t work, but there are alternatives to the click(). You can use TouchActions or the mobile: tap command to tap at certain co-ordinates. I found that Click() sometimes didn’t work for me so I created a method TapAtCentreOfElement() which gets the co-ordinates, works out the middle of the element, and then uses TouchAction to tap at those co-ordinates on screen. I’ve found it to be more reliable than Click(). My code is in C# so I’m not sure it will help you to post it here, but it should be very doable in Python.

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