Is there any way to use "following sibling" command in xpath in android ? Appium is not able to recognise it!

dhivya_lakshmi · June 7, 2015, 7:38am

I’m trying to find all the relative layout elements below a linear layout element.I used the below ommand in xpath.

//android.widget.ExpandableListView[1]/android.widget.LinearLayout[text() = ‘List of devices’]/following-sibling::android.widget.RelativeLayout

Appium is returning me " Failed to locate element "

Is this the correct syntax of using following sibling or is there any alternative way of finding those elements with any other locator strategy??

sebv · June 8, 2015, 12:18am

Best is to use android native selector, please refer to the doc.

dhivya_lakshmi · June 8, 2015, 10:37am

@sebv : do you mean Appium node js doc link .ie. https://github.com/admc/wd/blob/master/doc/api.md ? btw We use NodeJs webdriver implementation

sebv · June 9, 2015, 3:36am

congthang1 · October 23, 2015, 1:15pm

should be like this:

  //android.widget.ExpandableListView[1]/android.widget.LinearLayout[@text = 'List of devices']/following-sibling::android.widget.RelativeLayout

or just:

//*[@text = 'List of devices']/following-sibling::android.widget.RelativeLayout

smujumdar · April 2, 2017, 9:20pm

driver.findElementByXPath("//android.widget.TextView[@text='a1492']/../following-sibling::android.view.ViewGroup").click();

I tried above but did not work.

smujumdar · April 2, 2017, 9:20pm

I tried above but did not work. Am I missing anything here?

Ramandeep_Singh · July 17, 2017, 7:20pm

Do we have any way to handle following-sibling for native android locator?