Android Appium Python-element.get_attribute（'text'）不返回任何文本

Question

I try to get the text attribute of an element in hybrid app.

def test_example(driver):
   el = driver.find_element_by_id('com.access_company.twine.android.dmc:id/btnVideos')

   print el.get_attribute("text")

so there is a button with video icon and a text "Videos". Unfortunately the above code doesnt print anything. So i tried this:

 print el.get_attribute("resourceId")

Surprisingly that works. So what am I missing or doing wrong here? Hope someone can help.

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Regards

Answer 1

For the text of the stated element try the following code :

el = driver.find_element_by_id('com.access_company.twine.android.dmc:id/btnVideos')
print el.text

Also el.get_attribute("resourceId") shall ideally return "btnVideos"

Answer 2

Ok. After investigating more time I found the solution and i feel so dumb now. There was a button, but this is not clickable so the id i was taking was not actually the button with the text, but the parent which is a relative layout without text. duh.. By the way resourceId doesn't return only "btnVideos" but the full id instead. Thanks for the help.