Appium: An element could not be located using Xpath in android hybrid apps?

Question

I trying to automate a hybrid app using the appium.i had developed my app using Ionic Framework. i had completed the total setup ready.then i tried to find the elements inspecting using firebug in Mozilla.i found the xpath of a particular button is //Button[text()='BROWSE MENU'].

but when i try to test it using appium it is unable to find it , my test got failed.

i tried some thing like this in my test

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[text()='BROWSE MENU']")).click();

this is the error i am getting on the console

FAILED: Loginforsample
org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters. (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 5.13 seconds
For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/no_such_element.html

this is inspector

i didn't know where exactly i am going wrong. initially i tried WEB_VIEW to inspect in chrome then i noticed that ionic has an advantage of direct inspecting using ionic serve. so i simply shifted to that and again i got struct here. please help me guys to this issue for me.

thanks in advance.

I mean exact `HTML` code sample for mentioned element, e.g. ``... — Andersson, Dec 22 '16 at 10:45
Could you check whether your button located inside an `iframe` element? — Andersson, Dec 22 '16 at 10:52
You mean `yeah`- you checked or `yeah`- it is in `iframe`? :) — Andersson, Dec 22 '16 at 11:19
this is the actual xpath i getting through inspect html/body/ion-nav-view/ion-side-menus/ion-side-menu-content/ion-nav-view/ion-view/ion-content/div[1]/div[2]/div[3]/div/button . this is so length so i modified it.is this cause any problem — Sukumar MS, Dec 22 '16 at 11:30
yes i noticed that. i check in wrong way.there is no iframe for buttons — Sukumar MS, Dec 22 '16 at 11:36
yes mr andersson. i am seeing the same error previously i got — Sukumar MS, Dec 22 '16 at 11:38
Your `XPath` seem to be ok, but there is no information in exception log about element that actually makes code fails. My code should generate `TimeoutException`, but not `NoSuchElementException`. Seems that your code fails to find another element as you said that error still the same. — Andersson, Dec 22 '16 at 11:59

Andersson · Answer 1 · 2016-12-22T11:35:05.950

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Try to add Explicit wait to your code:

//driver.switchTo().frame("put_iframe_id_or_name_here");  //to switch to iframe
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30);
WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//button[text()='BROWSE MENU']")));
element.click();
//driver.switchTo().defaultContent();  //to switch back if required

edited Dec 22 '16 at 11:35

answered Dec 22 '16 at 11:01

Andersson

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hey mr Andersson can u say how to set setWebContentsDebuggingEnabled to true in ionic framework.to switch to web_view – Sukumar MS Dec 23 '16 at 09:51
Sorry, have no idea about how `ionic` framework works :( `css selector` for your button could be `button.button.button-raised-button-balanced.ink-dark.button-block` – Andersson Dec 23 '16 at 09:54

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 22 '16 at 17:22

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I use to have this problem so i have used cssSelector it's a good way for testing hybrid apps !

answered Dec 22 '16 at 17:22

Emna Ayadi

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hi Emma. how to access cssSelector . will provoide an example.i actually new to selenium web drivers. – Sukumar MS Dec 23 '16 at 04:14
try this example ! : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18288333/need-to-find-element-in-selenium-by-css – Emna Ayadi Dec 23 '16 at 09:58
i will try it. can u say how to set setWebContentsDebuggingEnabled to true in ionic framework.to switch to web_view – Sukumar MS Dec 23 '16 at 10:01

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 10 '17 at 06:58

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just try to apply 10 seconds wait [Thread.sleep(10000);] before you are performing the operation on this button. if it works then fine otherwise change the locator to cssSelector.

answered Jan 10 '17 at 06:58

Shubham Agrawal

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Appium: An element could not be located using Xpath in android hybrid apps?

i tried some thing like this in my test

this is the error i am getting on the console

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