Unable to read android element

RISHI_KHANNA 2016-09-19 08:51:18 UTC #1

Hi,

For some screen of my AUT I'm getting "Error obtaining UI hierarchyError while obtaining UI hierarchy XML file: com.android.ddmlib.SyncException: Remote object doesn't exist!"

Is it because developer of the app had made some kind of restriction for this page? Or there is any workaround to access it?

NOTE: While reading the elements appium server is not running.

willosser 2016-09-19 18:17:49 UTC #2

I see this error most when using uiautomator on a screen with animations. The workaround I use is to dump the page source from within appium.

RISHI_KHANNA 2016-09-19 18:31:27 UTC #3

How can we do that? Can you tell the steps?
I m using windows machine

willosser 2016-09-19 21:57:46 UTC #4

Within your appium code, there is a command to dump the page source. In Ruby, it is get_source. Save that to a file and you can examine the xml layout to find the elements you are looking for.

RISHI_KHANNA 2016-09-20 10:38:05 UTC #5

Thanks a lot man! Great workaround...