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Appium: Do we have a common attribute for Android and iOS to check for text value of a certain element?

I'm currently torn on whether this is verifiable or not. First, I think there is some way to get the attribute value from a mobile element. However, after my observation I noticed they have two different attribute names, text for Android and value for iOS. O_O Our team is currently aiming to do one script for both Android and iOS by accessing the elements using accessibility ID. But... we have a test case that needs to verify if changes where correct after saving. Do we have a way to do this?

Note: We are running this in Saucelabs and Github Actions. One test script for both Android and iOS.

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Solution

  • You could write your tests with page factory (Page Object design pattern), this way you can specify one WebElement with a different selector per platform:

    @iOSXCUITFindBy(accessibility = "yourSelector")
@AndroidFindBy(xpath = "yourSelector")
    private WebElement yourWebElement

    Text / value can be read by one and the same method for both platforms like so:

    yourWebElement.getText();

    (Examples in Java) Documentation here.