How to use Appium to interact with an element that remains visible on the UI for 2-3 seconds?

Issues/Bugs
1

I need to tap on an element that hardly stays for 3 seconds on the UI. Since it is vanishing from the UI within 3 seconds, my test is getting failed while finding the element. Is there a way to deal with it using appium?

Scenario -

  1. User1 generates a notification for User2
  2. User2 needs to find the element and tap on it
2

Please provide more details on your actual environment

3

@mykola-mokhnach We have host connected to the phone which runs appium , and controls ui elements by sending command to webdriver agent that is running on the phone.

4
  1. is this iOS/Android/Both?
  2. how you trying to search now?
  3. give example of page source when this element visible. include also few lines before and and after needed element.
5

We are seeing this issue in both. Currently, using resource-id for Android to locate this element.
if we take example of Teams app, where we receive a new chat we get a notification or a missed call notification in the app UI which stays for quite few seconds only, how to capture that elements?

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the fastest way I know e.g. for android

// Java
        boolean result = false;
        long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        do {
            try {
                // id has package name
                result = tap(driver.findElement(AppiumBy.id("id_with_package_name")));
                // or slightly slower
                // result = tap(driver.findElement(AppiumBy.androidUIAutomator("new UiSelector().resourceId(\"any_id\")")));
                // or we can disable add package name in appium settings and use first way
                if (result)
                    break;
            } catch (Exception ignored) {
            }
            sleep(100); // prevent too often search
        } while (System.currentTimeMillis() < startTime + 10 * 1000); // 10 sec MAX wait
        Assert.assertTrue(result, "Tap PopUp FAILED");
        
        // tap() and sleep() use any your implementation you know