Unable to find element for IOS app for particular screen

Bhagyashree_Panigrah · March 11, 2019, 1:51pm

Hi,

I am using IOS app for automating through appium. In some screens I am unable to find any elements present in that particular screen. As discussed with developer, they have added accessibility ID in all the elements. Still when I am trying to inspect that particular screens no hierarchy and tags are present. Also we have tried to search the elements through script using accessibility id, still unable to identify the objects. Could you please suggest what more work around will be helpful.

Thanks
Bhagyashree

Aleksei · March 11, 2019, 10:38pm

@Bhagyashree_Panigrah first share:

result of ‘driver.getPageSource()’ on needed screen (pls NOT in forum but outside link e.g. to https://gist.github.com/)
image of screen

Bhagyashree_Panigrah · March 14, 2019, 8:12am

![34%20PM|690x431]

Please find the screenshot of the appium inspector view while spying on the particular screen.

Aleksei · March 13, 2019, 8:46am

@Bhagyashree_Panigrah it is not result of “result of ‘driver.getPageSource()’”. AppiumGUI can be wrong.

Also does your app NATIVE? or maybe Web wrapped?

Nischal_Sinha · March 13, 2019, 9:58am

@Bhagyashree_Panigrah Which version of Appium you are using?

Bhagyashree_Panigrah · March 13, 2019, 10:18am

Appium version - 1.10.0

Nischal_Sinha · March 13, 2019, 10:29am

OK then it should work. Previous versions of appium was having issues with inspecting Hybrid app but in latest appium it works fine. Is your app is native or Hybrid?

Bhagyashree_Panigrah · March 13, 2019, 10:42am

Hi Aleksei,

Please find result from appium console for driver.getPageSouce()

Also it is a Native app and from the eclipse console I do not get any error message.

Bhagyashree_Panigrah · March 13, 2019, 10:43am

It is a Native app. Also I have mentioned the driver.getsourcePage in the previous message.

Aleksei · March 13, 2019, 4:55pm

@Bhagyashree_Panigrah wow. now we see 193 sec in response = pageSource is too large. Does this page contains many elements?

Bhagyashree_Panigrah · March 13, 2019, 6:14pm

Yes, it contains list of records. Is is feasible to identify the object in any way?

Aleksei · March 13, 2019, 6:41pm

@Bhagyashree_Panigrah try with same screen BUT with min possible number of objects. If it helps -> ask dev to reduce number of object in list. Load objects while user scrolling down.

Bhagyashree_Panigrah · March 15, 2019, 5:05am

I had a discussion with developer they have already implemented the loading object on scrolling. Is there any other way around?

nibedita-selenium · September 30, 2020, 9:31am

I am also facing the same issue, pages with lots of element is not identifiable in iOS.

Any solution here?

Is there any way to load only the elements visible in appium through capability.

Sehar_Ahmed · April 19, 2022, 2:24am

Did anyone find a solution to themis problem?

mtwarner · January 20, 2023, 4:58pm

Anyone find a solution? I am seeing that if I use

driver.findElements(AppiumBy.accessibilityId(accessibility));

it returns no elements even though the element is there in the inspector. In addition, if I put a break point and step through things everything works fine.

I am using java client 8.3.