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How to check the color code/color of an element in Appium?

How to check the color code/color of an element in Appium ?
I'm unable to find the color of the element in appium because in one field I want to automate the output which is defined in different colors. How to verify this using Appium/UI automator.

Appium does not support color testing for element !

This cannot be done by Appium as underlying UIAutomator framework does not allow us to do so.
In app’s native context this cannot be done.
In app’s webview context could query the value of a web element's computed CSS property. Example:
MobileElement element = (MobileElement) driver.findElementById("SomeId");
String cssProperty = element.getCssValue("style");
Note: This command only applies to web view contexts.
More information is available at: http://appium.io/docs/en/commands/element/attributes/css-property/
Summary:
for element inside NATIVE CONTEXT ==>> NO
for element inside WEB VIEW CONTEXT ==>> YES

Android application xpath with content desc - handle the line break

Objective: To click on Access for all guest users.
I am unable to find this element.
uiautomatorviewer shows the following screenshot.
Content description is following copy/pasted
"Access for all guest users
Provider not listed? Stay tuned, we will be adding more TV providers shortly."
Notice: the line break after user. I believe this is why my xpath is not working.
My xpath is:
"//android.view.View[#content-desc ='Access for all guest usersProvider not listed? Stay tuned, we will be adding more TV providers shortly.']"
I cannot use index instead of content-desc because of the object in layers above have the same class and index.
Using tap to a specific might solve the problem but is not a good solution.
any ideas on how to handle that linebreak.

If you notice the XML hierarchy, you will notice that your element is inside a WebView (3rd node from top). So its not getting identified. You have to first switch to WebView and then use your code.
The way you mentioned the xpath should work, once you switch to WebView.

No ID for my Android UI Testing

I would like to write some UI Test on my Android application in order to take automated screenshots.
My application is written with React-Native.
In order to write my tests in need to know the resource-id of my component but as you can see in this screenshot i can't see any resource-id with ui Automator Viewer in this React-Native example app.
Look this picture.
I would like to know if there is a way to give some IDs to my components so I can write some test or if there is another way to select my components.
Note : I'm trying to write Espresso Test.

The testID only works on iOS, and is not mapped to the resource-id in Android.
You can specify an accessibilityLabel to your component. In uiautomatorviewer it shows up as content-desc
To be cross-platform, you should specify both:
<Text style={styles.welcome} accessibilityLabel="MyId" testID="MyId">
Welcome!
</Text>
You can then search for it using something like webdriver with the tilde selector browser.waitForExist("~MyId")

First of all, ID of each UI Component of Android objects has to be defined in the resource(res) folder as layout XMLs(you need to make sure you have defined it in the right tags) and to obtain the IDs in the Android please follow the steps:
1. Launch Android Studio, Click on "Android Device Monitor" icon next to "SDK Manager"
2. Connect your device and launch the application
3. Select your device name from the list of devices on the left panel
4. Click on Dump "View Hierarchy for UI Automate"
5. Now you can hoover over any view on thde device dump and can see Resource-d in the node details in the right column.
Note: You can also take screenshots

1)First thing first if its your project you can go to the layout and add id to these component and then take screenshot using uiautomator viewer you will find your resource id
2) If option 1 is not possible(that's highly unlikely to happen) you can still test it as from your screenshot i can see only one edittext box so using uiauatomator you can test it on the basis of the class . Here below is the code:
private static UiDevice mDevice;
func(){
mDevice = UiDevice.getInstance(getInstrumentation());
UiObject xyz=new UiObject(new UiSelector().**getClass**(android.widget.EditText));
xyz.click();
xyz.setText("abcdef");
}
// I am not sure its getclass() or getclassName() check both option
//xyz.click() is necessary as in uiautoamtor you won't be able to right text
in a textbox until and unless it is selected

Yes there is! You can pass a testID prop to any component that implements the <View /> props, as documented here.
testID string
Used to locate this view in end-to-end tests.
See also this very informative blogpost about UITesting in React Native. It is about iOS testing, but the javascript part is going to be the same for Android.

Match a View in WebView from Espresso in Android

I want to match the user name text field inside a WebView which loads the Salesforce login page (but can also be applied to any other page with text fields).
I have tried with:
onView(withHint("User Name")).perform(typeText("test#sf.com"));
But that doesn't work. Any better idea?

This can be accomplished using Espresso Web 2.2 API
onWebView().withElement(findElement(Locator.ID,"username")).perform(webKeys("test#sf.com"));

Please use Locator.Xpath if you don't know ID.
To find xpath first you need to check the html code based on which you can write xpath.
To get html source code you can use chrome inspector.
connect the device to the PC and then open chrome inspector.You can right click on the html code and click on copy xpath to get the xpath.

You can fill form just run js code in WebView.
For example:
webView.loadUrl("
javascript:document.getElementById('username-field').value = 'test#sf.com’;
");

Appium: Android Resource ID: translates to what in their selenium integration?

So for example I have:
wd.findElement.By(name("searchBttn"));
the resource-id in the ui xml screen cap is
com.aut.android:id/searchBttn
and Appium can't find the item. I have tried with ID and Name. Is there something else here i could try is there a direct line for line correlation list somewhere that i am missing?

You can find an Android item in Appium by Resource ID, but you have to specify the entire package name along with the resource id:
wd.findElement.By(id("com.aut.android:id/searchBttn"));

You can fetch element by few more way other than name or id is not available
Can find element find by using resource-id like below example:
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#resource-id='login']")).click();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='cash']")).click();
Here: com.android.calculator2:id/digit5 is complete resource id and can use like this:
driver.findElement(By.id("com.android.calculator2:id/digit5")).click();
Can find by class name:
driver.findElement(By.className("android.widget.Button")).click();

At least name works for me. I'm trying to find out how it works for ID, but you can look at the following.
Example: If the button text is set to "testbtn", then you can access it from Appium with the following command:
driver.findElement(By.name("testbtn")).click();
This works for me, try it.
EDIT:
As one of the Appium devs stated here, it currently seems to be not possible to access elements by ID on Android.
EDIT2:
This feature is now implemented! As I found out, you can now access elements from Android by ID using selendroid (it seems to be a sub part of Appium).
In your test class you need to specify capabilities.setCapability("device", "selendroid"); when setting up instead of capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "Android");
Now you can just access a button with
driver.findElement(By.id("testbtn")).click();
You can find the official documentation from Selendroid here

I had the same problem in python where I couldn't find the elements that had the id attribute even though I could see them in the appium inspector.
Some of the apps have multiple contexts that the driver can handle like NATIVE_APP & WEB_VIEW so I had to switch the context of the driver to WEB_VIEW so it could find the elements with the driver.find_elements_by_id("")(python syntax)
Documentation on how to switch contexts with code examples -
http://appium.io/docs/en/writing-running-appium/web/hybrid/index.html