Wanted to click on android element using appium by providing xpath

Question

I have a button onclick event , however, when it is run, in reality, the button is not actually clicked.When I do .isDisplayed(), the element is always found. however, still the test fails. Here i wanted to click on Not now button but in following code didn't work , what should i do ?

     WebElement c=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//android.widget.Button[@resource-id='android:id/button2']"));
            if(c.isDisplayed())
            {
                c.click();
            }
    Thread.sleep(20000);


    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//android.widget.EditText[@text='Email']")).sendKeys("testappium@gmail.com");

i also tried following code but i didn't work

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//android.widget.FrameLayout[@bounds='[27,724][1053,1267]']/android.widget.FrameLayout[@bounds='[75,772][1005,1219]']/android.widget.FrameLayout[@resource-id='android:id/content']/android.widget.LinearLayout[@resource-id='android:id/parentPanel']/android.widget.LinearLayout[@resource-id='android:id/buttonPanel']/android.widget.Button[@bounds='[517,1063][777,1207]']")).click();

also tried following code:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@class='android.widget.Button' and @bounds='[517,1063][777,1207]']")).click();

error which i'm getting is :

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters.
For documentation on this error, please visit: https://www.seleniumhq.org/exceptions/no_such_element.html

*** Element info: {Using=xpath, value=//android.widget.EditText[@text='Email']}

at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.createException(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:187)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.decode(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:122)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.decode(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:49)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:158)
    at io.appium.java_client.remote.AppiumCommandExecutor.execute(AppiumCommandExecutor.java:239)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:552)
    at io.appium.java_client.DefaultGenericMobileDriver.execute(DefaultGenericMobileDriver.java:42)
    at io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver.execute(AppiumDriver.java:1)
    at io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver.execute(AndroidDriver.java:1)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:323)
    at io.appium.java_client.DefaultGenericMobileDriver.findElement(DefaultGenericMobileDriver.java:62)
    at io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver.findElement(AppiumDriver.java:1)
    at io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver.findElement(AndroidDriver.java:1)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElementByXPath(RemoteWebDriver.java:428)
    at io.appium.java_client.DefaultGenericMobileDriver.findElementByXPath(DefaultGenericMobileDriver.java:152)
    at io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver.findElementByXPath(AppiumDriver.java:1)
    at io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver.findElementByXPath(AndroidDriver.java:1)
    at org.openqa.selenium.By$ByXPath.findElement(By.java:353)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:315)
    at io.appium.java_client.DefaultGenericMobileDriver.findElement(DefaultGenericMobileDriver.java:58)
    at io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver.findElement(AppiumDriver.java:1)
    at io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver.findElement(AndroidDriver.java:1)
    at execution.AppTest.main(AppTest.java:183)

UI Automator Viewer:

Answer 1

You can directly use the id here.

WebElement element=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//android.widget.Button[@text='Not Now']"));
if(element.isDisplayed()){
    element.click();
}

Answer 2

Check how many matches are coming for the below XPath

String xPath = "//*[@resource-id='android:id/button2']";

If there are multiple matches then pass the matching index number in the below XPath :

String xPath = "(//*[@resource-id='android:id/button2'])[matching index number]";

Give some delay before searching for an element or performing any operation. Try the below code:

Thread.sleep(3000);
String xPath = "//*[@resource-id='android:id/button2']";
List<WebElement> notNow = driver.findElements(By.xpath(xPath));
if(notNow.size() > 0) {
    notNow.get(0).click(); // You can pass the matching index in get() also if there are multiple matches
}

Or you can use the below XPath, give some delay before trying to find :

String xPath = "//android.widget.TextView[@text='Text That You Want to locate']"

I hope it helps...

Answer 3

You can use in this way

     WebElement element=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//android.widget.Button[@id='button2']"));
        if(element.isDisplayed())
        {
            element.click();
        }

or

string elementId = driver.findElement(By.Id("button2"));
if(elementId.isDisplayed){ element.click(); }

Both should work

Answer 4

using xpath is not recommended in appium.

You can use findElementById like

driver.findElementById("android:id/button2").click()