IOS: Some element are not visible through Appium Inspector

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@Mani_maran_chandraba
Here’s what I did.
If you use the UICatalog.app https://saucelabs.com/resources/articles/appium-bootcamp-chapter-2
You can download the iOS source code, build this yourself and do some learning :slightly_smiling:

I did this and I stubbed out the following:
An example of the appium inspector showing one button with a label and one without.
An example of reveal program comparing the same buttons.
An example of what the Storyboard in the source looks like comparing the same buttons

What I noticed:

  1. Reveal and Appium seem to report the same results - that’s good.
  2. It seems like if your app has a button icon without text and an accessibility label, hint, or identifier is not explicitly set - then the label does not show up upon interrogation. I’ll bet that’s what is happening wth you.

Takeaways:

  1. I would encourage you to look at the Storyboard.xml that you have and see if that matches up with what I am saying.
  2. I would encourage your developers to look at [Apple’s Accessibility Guidelines] (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/iPhoneAccessibility/Making_Application_Accessible/Making_Application_Accessible.html) Most likely they need to add an accessibility element either in the storyboard or programmatically.

@CMTaylor. You are correct. While you cannot scroll to the table cells ofscreen, you should be able to click on them. Do you need to scroll to them first? Otherwise I would just directly click. If you need to actually scroll to them first, I would do the TouchAction commands to swipe down page by page and check for your element each time. It’s not ideal, but it works :slightly_smiling:

Hope it’s helpful. Let me know if further questions.
Thanks!