Please help me in detecting highlighted child element in linear layout for android

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Hi,
I am beginner in appium , trying to automate one android app.
I am trying to find element in linear layout. Please help me how to find linear layout child elements.

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Thanks,

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Hi. You can find child elements like this:

driver.findElementByClass("android.widget.ExpandableListView").findElementsByClass("android.widget.LinearLayout").get(1)

You can use whatever method you want to locate parent element. To locate child element, i made a list and took second element.

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// Provisional code based on screen shot

List[WebElement] parent = driver.findElements(By.className(“android.widget.ExpandableListView”);
List[WebElement] child = parent.findElements(By.className(“android.widget.LinearLayout”);
System.out.println("No of elements in linear Layout class " + child.size());

for (int i=0;i<child.size();i++{
System.out.println("Linear Layout text " + child.get(i).getText());
}

** change syntax of declaring list as less then and greater then sign are not visible in this text area

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Thanks Alexis ,

I tried with your code,Its giving error org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException:

My code is:
Driver.findElement(By.name(“India”)).click();
Driver.findElement(By.className(“android.widget.ExpandableListView”)).findElements(By.className(“android.widget.LinearLayout”)).get(1);

Driver.Close();

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Thanks amitjaincoer191,

I tried with your code,it shows error FindElementBy is undefined for type List Webelement
My code is
System.out.print(“In Test”);
List parent = new ArrayList() ;
List child = new ArrayList() ;
Driver.findElement(By.name(“India”)).click();
parent = Driver.findElements(By.className(“android.widget.ExpandableListView”));
child = parent.findElements(By.className(“android.widget.LinearLayout”));
System.out.println("No of elements in linear Layout class " + child.size());
Driver.close();

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Sorry the code was wrong. Can u use uiautomatorviewer for inspection that is much better for android instead of appium inspector. If you post screen shot of that u can get much reliable code from group members.

Assuming class “android.widget.ExpandableListView” is appearing only 1 time in page if not we can use loop for that also.

List[WebElement] parent = _driver.findElements(By.className(“android.widget.ExpandableListView”));
List[WebElement] child = parent.get(0).findElements(By.className(“android.widget.LinearLayout”));
System.out.println("No of elements in linear Layout class " + child.size());

	for (int i=0;i<child.size();i++){
			System.out.println("Linear Layout text " + child.get(i).getText());
	}

Usually inside linear layout direct text will not be there , we have more classes inside it like EditText,TextView etc …

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Run uiautomatorviewer its a batch file from folder
adt-bundle-windows-x86-20140702\sdk\tools\uiautomatorviewer.bat using cmd
get u r device listed through adb and run app in it and click icon next to folder in header and u will get good view of u r app

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Now that you have a resource-id, you can just do:

Driver.findElementById("com.cleartrip.android:id/buses_layout");

Provided you want the element highlighted in your last post.

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here resource id is exposed so u can find elements by id and loop it over to find text/element u r looking for
Based on info u provided a specific locator cannot be told or post screen shot of exact element u want to locate

List[WebElement] parent = driver.findElements(By.id(“com.cleartrip.android:id/buses_layout”));
for getting first child
parent.get(0).findElements(By.some locator strategy)
parent.get(1).findElements(By.some locator strategy)

it’s good u have hidden package but it’s still exposed in resource id. Clear trip app is on google play store any one can use it and view its element using uiautmatorviewer

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Is this a problem ? Anyone can get the app’s package name using dumpsys window with adb shell.

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Thanks for reply, there was no bad intention behind hiding app name, i did not know whether we can actually use such app for practice purpose and just habitual of not to disclose such thing in public. I realized it after upload screenshot :smile: