RemoteWebElement can not be cast to io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidElement

[Aleksei]

@Shivaji_Ghadge i do not understand you the code i gave.

[Shivaji_Ghadge]

Thanks it work for me…Thanks a lot…

[roni-castro]

This combination solved this casting problem for me:

• java-client-4.1.2.jar

• selenium-server-standalone-2.53.0.jar

• appium 1.6.4

[Shivaji_Ghadge]

Thanks This works for me

[bennid]

This broke for me all of a sudden with no changes to my dependencies or code (I was actually on vacation over the weekend) for weeks. I believe this started failing Friday 8/18 (We saw some other weird issues in another repo around dependencies, and had to force selenium 3.4.0 to ignore guava and force guava 21.0 as it was trying to use 23.0).

[bennid]

Indeed it appears as though the selenium 3.5.1 release has fouled up some older dependencies that may not have been specific enough, as my 3.3.0 selenium is “upgrading” to 3.5.1:

+--- org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java:3.3.0
|    +--- org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-chrome-driver:3.3.0
|    |    \--- org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-remote-driver:3.3.0 -> 3.5.1
|    |         +--- org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-api:3.5.1
|    |         +--- cglib:cglib-nodep:3.2.4
|    |         +--- org.apache.commons:commons-exec:1.3
|    |         +--- commons-codec:commons-codec:1.10
|    |         +--- commons-logging:commons-logging:1.2
|    |         +--- com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.0 -> 2.8.1
|    |         +--- com.google.guava:guava:23.0

Looks like the issue is in the selenium htmlunit dependency that’s grabbing 3.5.1 causing everythingelse to be upgraded

|    \--- org.seleniumhq.selenium:htmlunit-driver:2.24
|         +--- org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-support:[2.53.0,4.0.0) -> 3.5.1
|         |    +--- org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-api:3.5.1
|         |    +--- org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-remote-driver:3.5.1 (*)

To fix this, force seleniumjava to a version, then ignore guava from it (gradle example):

// Selenium 3.5.1 released, caused older selenium issues, so need to force guava to 21.0 and other
// sub-modules where we want them.  thanks htmlunit-driver!

// Uncomment this line, and remove bottom section if things get fixed or you upgrade
// all the way to selenium 3.5.1... but appium doesn't play well with it yet
// compile("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java:3.3.0")

// All this can go away if htmlunit-driver is fixed for older selenium versions
compile("io.appium:java-client:5.0.0-BETA9") {
    exclude group: 'org.seleniumhq.selenium', module: 'selenium-java'
}
compile("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java:3.3.0") {
    exclude group: 'org.seleniumhq.selenium', module: 'htmlunit-driver'
}
// If you need parts of htmlunit-driver dependencies, uncomment this
// compile("org.seleniumhq.selenium:htmlunit-driver:2.26") {
//     exclude group: 'org.seleniumhq.selenium', module: 'selenium-api'
//     exclude group: 'org.seleniumhq.selenium', module: 'selenium-support'
// }
compile group: 'org.seleniumhq.selenium', name: 'selenium-support', version: "3.3.0"
// Make sure guava is 21.0... others don't play well
compile group: 'com.google.guava', name: 'guava', version: '21.0'
// If you need codec stuff from newer commons-codec
compile group: 'commons-codec', name: 'commons-codec', version: '1.10'

[venkat4]

Yes selenium 3.5.1 is the culprit, downgrading to 3.4 had successfully able to locate native elements in Android

[Krishnakarthik_G]

I faced similar issue with iOS 11.0 and got resolved when i updated java-client to latest i.e., 5.0.4

[Ritesh_Sinha]

1. Add commons-lang3-3.1.jar in library
2. Use java-client-5.0.4.jar instead of previous version.

Your Problem will be solved.

[siddhant_raut]

Hi All,

I am still getting same error eventhough I am using latest versions…

	<artifactId>java-client</artifactId>
	<version>4.1.2</version>

          <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
            <version>3.8.1</version

Src:==>

public class StartApplication {

	private static AndroidDriver driver;

	
	public static void main() throws MalformedURLException, InterruptedException {

		DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
		capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "");
		capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "MotoG");
		capabilities.setCapability("platformVersion", "6.0");
		capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "Android");
		 capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "abc.xys.test");
		capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", "abc.xys.test.HomeActivity");
		driver = new AndroidDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);
		driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(80, TimeUnit.SECONDS); 
		Thread.sleep(10000);
		driver.findElementById("android:id/up").click();		
								

}

Console O/P ==>
java.lang.NullPointerException at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.execute(RemoteWebElement.java:279) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.click(RemoteWebElement.java:83)

Please Help…

[siddhant_raut]

This works after searching again

with reference of this issue https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/6580

I have downgraded the selenium-jar 3.8.0 to 3.4.0.

thanks.