Can't use find element by id on activity after pop up dialog and dismiss

[vanshu]

I am using appium-desktop-windows 1.7.2 as appium server
my device is nexus 5x , version: 7.1.2
when the server try to run self.driver.find_element_by_id(“action_apply”).click()
can’t get id from finding element by id api.
before find element this id, I pop up one dialog using appium api
after dialog dimiss , everything is wrong ,you can’t get anything from find element by id and also you can’t find element by class ,becase it’s all return null.

[bogatoiucatalin]

Hello vanshu

Have you tried other locators like:

driver.findElement(By.id("action_apply")).click();

or maybe @iOSFindBy , @AndroidFindBy ?

[manishboricha308]

Hey,

You can try the patch fix i am using and its is not the permanent solution

I just relaunch the app after every dialog appears.

Code :

driver.runAppInBackground(“Time in seconds you want to keep app in background, i kept it 2 seconds”);

So code is

driver.runAppInBackground(2);