How to identify graphs through Appium inspector?

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I m not able to identify graphs present on screen . Inspector shows all the components present on screen but not only graph. Please help me out…

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Which OS? What kind of graphs? Is it native, hybrid, or web app? Provide please more details…

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Hi Kirill,

Many thanks for the reply… :smile:

My app is running on iOS 8.1 .(iphone 5s ) Its native app. You can get more info my previous post . Please check this app screen shot , u can get some idea… I am trying to identify this below graph through our Appium inspector and i m not able to get complete hierarchy , only for the graph its not giving any component name. I checked with developers the graph is plotted with the help of Core Plot framework on iOS. Its custom view. Please help me with if possible.

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Interesting… What does page source method returns?

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I didn’t use pagesource method kirill . Is it will help ?? What i will get through this , wait wll try to use this method and let u know the results.

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Yeah. Try it.
I know that there are cases, when you can’t work some of the elements. For example on Android, you can’t work with cells of GridView, as I know… And seems like your custom view is limited in this case.
PS. And make sure that it is native app, not hybrid with WebViews…

Update: As an option, look on source code and see if devs you some specific selectors or something…

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I tried with getPageSource() for above application screenshot method but after getting the print for that , graph hierarchy is missing . I m able to get the complete hierarchy through MonkeyTalk tool in that the for graph the component name is MSLineChartView . I am using Appium in my company n i want to perform this through Appium. Any alternative solution??? What’s the reason its not able to identify that particular graph part from screen ???

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Seems like Appium doesn’t support custom views. You should try UIAutomatorviewer :+1:

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But UIAutomatorviewer is for android right???
Is it will work for iOS?? And UIAutomatorviewer is a tool so i need to run the test suite also through this only ??

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Oops. Sorry. I forgot, that you are running on iOS… Of course it is for Android only. :smiley:

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No problem… But this will be drawback for Appium. I think after implementing Custom Views in Appium it will be strong and robust .

Request to Appium developers please implement Custom views also so that user can able to automate custom type of graphs .

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Just wanna make sure… Can you please call available contexts methods and see what you got?

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How to call current contexts methods???

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Sorry, I meant available contexts…
Make sure to pick your language:
http://appium.io/slate/en/master/?ruby#available-contexts

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Set contexts = driver.getContextHandles();
Iterator iterator = contexts.iterator();

	// check values
	while (iterator.hasNext()){
		System.out.println("Value: "+iterator.next() + " ");

Result:
Value: NATIVE_APP

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Ok, so that’s exactly from this screen, right?

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yes from above screen