Appium iOS automation using Java : get element using accessibility Id?

Question

I am new to iOS automation using Appium. I can access elements and do automation using XPath like this

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//UIAApplication[1]/UIAWindow[2]/UIASecureTextField[3]")).click();

I would like to access elements using the accessibility label name given. When using the Appium inspector I can see that the accessibility name is displayed under the parameter Value . But How to access this value using Java code?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You should be able to use the findElementByAccessibilityId(String using) method in Java. More info on it here:

http://appium.github.io/java-client/io/appium/java_client/FindsByAccessibilityId.html

Answer 2

getAttribute will return the all the information about the element, you just need to filter what you want, Following code will return the value of the element.

driver.findElement(By.name("Sign in")).getAttribute("value")