如何在Android中使用Appium uiautomatorviewer创建XPath？

Question

How to create XPath using UI automator viewer. Currently I am testing mobile web applications. Here I need to identify object properties, i have tried to use properties identified by firebug and relative XPath but it could not workout. Could you please guide me how to create XPath using appium UI automator viewer in android ?

I am using android in windows machine. I would like to get ID, name and XPath of the objects in mobile web browser.

Setup below:

public void Appium() throws MalformedURLException{

            DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
            capabilities.setCapability("device", "Android");
            capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "Browser");
            capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.VERSION, "5.1.1");
            capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "Android");
            capabilities.setCapability("deviceName","097f2163010ad15f");

            capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.PLATFORM, "WINDOWS");

            capabilities.setCapability("app", "chrome");
           driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);

Answer 1

If you want to create xpath in your window above, it would be like this:

driver.findElementsByXPath("//*[@content-desc='No' and @index='16']");

Just keep changing the parameters as per your need.

Answer 2

In Appium framework XPath syntax is a bit different from the one used in Web as @Gaurav mentions.

If you would print the XML page source it would be a bit more easier for you to understand the structure. Here is an example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<hierarchy rotation="0">
    <android.widget.FrameLayout index="0" text="" class="android.widget.FrameLayout" package="com.test" content-desc="" checkable="false" checked="false" clickable="false" enabled="true" focusable="false" focused="false" scrollable="false" long-clickable="false" password="false" selected="false" bounds="[0,0][1080,1776]" resource-id="" instance="0">
        <android.widget.LinearLayout index="0" text="" class="android.widget.LinearLayout" package="com.test" content-desc="" checkable="false" checked="false" clickable="false" enabled="true" focusable="false" focused="false" scrollable="false" long-clickable="false" password="false" selected="false" bounds="[0,0][1080,1776]" resource-id="" instance="0">
            <android.widget.FrameLayout index="0" text="" class="android.widget.FrameLayout" package="com.test" content-desc="" checkable="false" checked="false" clickable="false" enabled="true" focusable="false" focused="false" scrollable="false" long-clickable="false" password="false" selected="false" bounds="[0,75][1080,1776]" resource-id="" instance="1">
                <android.widget.FrameLayout index="0" text="" class="android.widget.FrameLayout" package="com.test" content-desc="" checkable="false" checked="false" clickable="false" enabled="true" focusable="false" focused="false" scrollable="false" long-clickable="false" password="false" selected="false" bounds="[0,75][1080,1776]" resource-id="com.test:id/action_bar_root" instance="2">
                    <android.widget.FrameLayout index="0" text="" class="android.widget.FrameLayout" package="com.test" content-desc="" checkable="false" checked="false" clickable="false" enabled="true" focusable="false" focused="false" scrollable="false" long-clickable="false" password="false" selected="false" bounds="[0,75][1080,1776]" resource-id="android:id/content" instance="3">
                        <android.widget.LinearLayout index="0" text="" class="android.widget.LinearLayout" package="com.test" content-desc="" checkable="false" checked="false" clickable="false" enabled="true" focusable="false" focused="false" scrollable="false" long-clickable="false" password="false" selected="false" bounds="[0,75][1080,1776]" resource-id="" instance="1"/>
                    </android.widget.FrameLayout>
                </android.widget.FrameLayout>
            </android.widget.FrameLayout>
        </android.widget.LinearLayout>
    </android.widget.FrameLayout>
</hierarchy>

So in Your case to find element the code would be following: driver.findElement(MobileBy.xpath("//android.widget.CheckBox[@index='1']"))

@Gaurav's example also is logically correct but the star should not be there like this: driver.findElementsByXPath("//[@class='android.widget.CheckBox' and @index='1']");