Is there any way to use "following sibling" command in xpath in android ? Appium is not able to recognise it!

dhivya_lakshmi 2015-06-07 07:38:53 UTC #1

I'm trying to find all the relative layout elements below a linear layout element.I used the below ommand in xpath.

//android.widget.ExpandableListView[1]/android.widget.LinearLayout[text() = 'List of devices']/following-sibling::android.widget.RelativeLayout

Appium is returning me " Failed to locate element "

Is this the correct syntax of using following sibling or is there any alternative way of finding those elements with any other locator strategy??

sebv 2015-06-08 00:18:04 UTC #2

Best is to use android native selector, please refer to the doc.

dhivya_lakshmi 2015-06-08 10:37:30 UTC #3

@sebv : do you mean Appium node js doc link .ie. https://github.com/admc/wd/blob/master/doc/api.md ? btw We use NodeJs webdriver implementation

sebv 2015-06-09 03:36:54 UTC #4

congthang1 2015-10-23 13:15:31 UTC #5

should be like this:

  //android.widget.ExpandableListView[1]/android.widget.LinearLayout[@text = 'List of devices']/following-sibling::android.widget.RelativeLayout

or just:

//*[@text = 'List of devices']/following-sibling::android.widget.RelativeLayout

smujumdar 2017-04-02 21:20:22 UTC #6

driver.findElementByXPath("//android.widget.TextView[@text='a1492']/../following-sibling::android.view.ViewGroup").click();

I tried above but did not work.

smujumdar 2017-04-02 21:20:57 UTC #7

I tried above but did not work. Am I missing anything here?

Ramandeep_Singh 2017-07-17 19:20:21 UTC #8

Do we have any way to handle following-sibling for native android locator?