How can I click on Text link inside of TextView (Android)

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Hi Aleksei!

How can i click on those links one by one as it doesn’t have any id’s
please help me how to resolve it.
Thanks in advance.

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@Prashanth try on same screen:

  1. switch to webview
  2. print “driver.getPageSource()”. publish it https://gist.github.com/ and give us a link
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@Prashanth if you use latest appium 1.6.5+ just log:

System.out.println(driver.getPageSource());

latest appium can switch to webView itself. if not i will show how to do it later…

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I am using 1.4.16.1 (Ohpiuchus) and i have windows 8.1 don’t have mac to upgrade to latest appium version

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you do not need mac :-). to install latest appium in windows you need:

  1. install nodeJS -> https://nodejs.org/en/
  2. in command prompt execute:
npm install -g appium@beta

although it’s beta - it has tons of improvements. if you doubt you can install previours like:

npm install -g [email protected]

now all is needed to start appium on windows PC is in command line execute “appium” :slight_smile:

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Ok i will try it. and let you know.

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it prints the page source as below how can i find elements to click on those links please help me.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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Hi VolodymyrGlushkov,
Can you please share me your code to click on Text link inside a TextView. Im facing similar kind of issue, i tried with below snippet. It doesnt work.

Element = Please click on the Our website using ‘Click here’
locator id = com.demoApp.sampleDemoApplication:id/text_title

*Click here has the link, which i need to click on from script.

Point point = element.getLocation();
size = getIOSDriver().manage().window().getSize();
int x = point.x + 1;
int y = point.y + element.getSize().getHeight() - 1;
TouchAction touchAction = new TouchAction(getIOSDriver());
touchAction.tap(x, y).perform();

Much appreciated for your response.
Thanks

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How to do driver.tap ?
do I need to use touchActions?

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@Priya_Khiwal tons of examples :- > https://github.com/appium/java-client/blob/master/src/test/java/io/appium/java_client/android/AndroidTouchTest.java

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AndroidDriver, where does this come from? I am not able to resolve this dependency…

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Right from java client -> https://github.com/appium/java-client/blob/master/src/main/java/io/appium/java_client/AppiumDriver.java

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@Aleksei tap method could not be found using driver.tap and also referred the one which you had posted here still no luck.
Tried below code,
Getting error --> org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters.

Point center1 = driver.findElementById("new_order").getCenter();
TouchAction startStop = new TouchAction(driver)
            .tap(point(center1.x, center1.y))
            .tap(element(driver.findElementById("new_order"), 5, 5));//Getting error here
startStop.perform();

visit XYZ.com need to click. The entire TextView id is “new_order”
To place a new order, visit XYZ.com.
Screenshot:

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removed first answer.

update code to something like:

        MobileElement el = (MobileElement) driver.findElementById("new_order");
        Point center = el.getCenter();
        TouchAction startStop = new TouchAction(driver)
                .tap(point(center.x + (el.getSize().width / 2) - 5, center.y)); // where -5 is to avoid el right border
        startStop.perform();

check that “el” will be found

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@Aleksei Thanks it’s working on pixel 2 device1. i hope it will work on all device sizes.
And also two more question . 1.How did you calculate that it should be -5?
2. How to make it work when we have more than one clickable link like one mentioned by Prashanth

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  1. you can replace -5 to some % as something in example of @mykola-mokhnach.
    • in mine example right part is: el.center.x + width / 2 - 5px.
    • in mykola’s: el.left.x + width * %. where % from 0 to 100%. i suggest use 90% (based on your screenshot)
  2. improve given tap example with giving not only X offset but Y offset also.
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What if the clickable text is dynamic(sometimes first line and sometimes second line) and in the middle of string…How can we make it work?
Like, say Example: “place a new order, with XYZ.”

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Hi Aleksei,

I tried the way but tap is not being performed. I have used Google_Pixel_real device

MobileElement el = (MobileElement) driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(@text,‘Details’)]"));
Point center = el.getCenter();
TouchAction startStop = new TouchAction(driver)
.tap(point(center.x + (el.getSize().width / 2) - 5, center.y)); // where -5 is to avoid el right border
startStop.perform();

can you please let me know are we able to click as clickable is false but enabled is true.

If so, Please let me know what to change here for x and y coordinates.

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  1. Enable on phone in developer menu show touches! Now we will start seeing where tap actually happen.
  2. in your code you trying to tap 100% in wrong place. You tap between text lines in left part of found element. but you need to tap into low bottom of element Y with some offset from left. so you can test it with code like:
        MobileElement el = (MobileElement) driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(@text,‘Details’)]"));
        for (int step = 5; step <= el.getSize().width; step = step + 5) {
            System.out.println("step: '" + step + "'");
            PointOption pointOption = new PointOption()
                    .withCoordinates(el.getLocation().x + step, el.getLocation().y - 10); // you can change '10' do any value that better fit
            new TouchAction(driver).tap(pointOption).perform();
            try {
                Thread.sleep(5000); // 5 sec wait to see if tap happened and 'Details' link pressed
            } catch (Exception ignored) {
            }
        }