How To Create Xpath With The Help Of Uiautomator For Android App?

How to create Xpath with the help of UIAutomator for android App? Link to any guide would be very helpful. Currently UIautomator does not gives Xpath. I want to know the steps to

Solution 1:

Ok so I recommend reading this article: http://www.w3schools.com/XPath/xpath_syntax.asp

But to give you an idea if you wanted to find a TextView with the text "hello world" you could use this xpath:

//android.widget.TextView[@text='hello world']

// means get any element

//android.widget.TextView means get any element with the class android.Widget.TextView

//android.widget.TextView[@text='hello world'] means get any element of class android.Widget.TextView with attribute "text" equal to "hello world"

I hope this explanation helps. If you want a better understanding read that article

Solution 2:

You can access elements form their ID in R.class. For example:

EditTexteditText= (EditText) getSolo().getView(R.id.note);

You can find it in UIautomator at resource-id column. Also you can click on elements by text and etc.

If you are testing web app, you can emulate view in chrome and get x-path from there. Go to Developer tools -> emulation and select the device and agent that you need.

I was using Robotium framework

and if you don`t know how to build xpath, here is good tutorial http://www.w3schools.com/XPath/

Solution 3:

It is better to go for appium inspector (appium desktop app) if you are using appium mode, else if in selendroid mode use selendroid inspector - http://selendroid.io/inspector.html