Cannot locate an element using appium in ios

Question

I am not able to locate an element despite the fact that using appium inspector the element is located using the same locator I use in code.

                By by = By.xpath("//UIATextView[@value='hey!!!!!']");
                boolean result;
                do{
                    device.swipeUp();
                     result = waitUntil(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(by));
                }while (!result);

Where my waitUntil is defined as :

public boolean waitUntil(ExpectedCondition<WebElement> condition){ 
  WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(device.getDriverWrapper().getIosDriver(),5); 
  wait.withTimeout(1,TimeUnit.SECONDS); 
  try { 
    wait.until(condition); // i wait until the condition will be met (with a time out of 1 seconds) and return true 
    return true; 
  } 
  catch (Exception e) { 
    return false; // if after the timeout of 1 seconds has reached then i retrun false 
  } 
} 

I see that the device keeps swiping up although the element is presented. Any idea?

Answer 1

If you are looking forward to wait until an element is located on the screen, you can use something similar to the following snippet :

By by = By.xpath("//UIATextView[@value='hey!!!!!']"); //any locator strategy
new WebDriverWait(driver, timeToWaitInSeconds)
                .until(new ExpectedCondition<WebElement>() {
                    public WebElement apply(WebDriver d) {
                        return driver.findElement(by);
                    }
                });

OR something simpler like this shall also resolve things :

By by = By.xpath("//UIATextView[@value='hey!!!!!']");
result = driver.findElement(by);
boolean result;
while (!result){
   device.swipeUp();
   result = driver.findElement(by);
}