Confused by the many locators strategies, which one is best and support all? (please read details)

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Hi Tester

Could you please save an intern day and help me on this issue that I have been working on all day without a solution

So I have a mobile app that I want to test on a real device, I am using these capabilities

udid=‘d645ad32’ ,
platformName= ‘Android’ ,
appPackage= ’ com.cybertel.voip.nokia ’ ,
appActivity= ‘com.cybertel.voip.ui.main.CallMainActivity’ ,
autoGrantPermissions= True,
noReset= True

the appium inspector gives this attributes for an element for an example

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I am just following a tutorial and trying to practice so might be I missed something since I am using a particalr app

The issue is I can only access the element by ID, which does not solve my task as some elements does not have ID so I need to access them by Name

driver1.find_element(by=AppiumBy.NAME, value=‘VOIP CLIENT UPDATE’)

I get this error

selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidSelectorException: Message: Locator Strategy ‘name’ is not supported for this session

can anyone please help me on how to select any element with the attributes

TIA

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Just by id ‘btn_update’. Appium will add package name itself.

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it is just an example, but many other elements has no id and have text or name attribute, anyway I found a really good explanation https://www.skill2lead.com/appium-python/appium-python-by-text-locator.php
this blog is a treasure for anyone using appium with python, kudos to this hero @wreed and thank you also @Aleksei for your active responses