Unable to locate elements with special characters($) in their locator values

The problem

Unable to locate elements with special characters($) in their locator values

Environment

Appium version 1.8.0 Desktop OS/version used to run Appium: Windows 10 Pro Node.js version (unless using Appium.app|exe): 8.10.0 Mobile platform/version under test: Android API 25 ,v7.1.1 Real device or emulator/simulator: Real Device Samsung Tab Appium CLI or Appium.app|exe: both

Ecxeption stacktraces

May 10, 2018 6:27:58 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession
INFO: Detected dialect: OSS
md52da4fc008d6b8a11b2105cb85a17be71.LoginView
Select Vehicle screen is displayed
ABC 123
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Returned value cannot be converted to WebElement: {stacktrace=InvalidSelectorError: Argument was an invalid selector (e.g. XPath/CSS).
    at errorFromMJSONWPStatusCode (C:\Users\gokulnath.kumar\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appium\node_modules\appium-base-driver\lib\protocol\errors.js:769:12)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (C:\Users\gokulnath.kumar\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appium\node_modules\appium-android-bootstrap\lib\bootstrap.js:129:18)
    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:211:7)
    at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:263:12)
    at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:246:13)
    at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:208:10)
    at TCP.onread (net.js:607:20), error=invalid selector, message=Argument was an invalid selector (e.g. XPath/CSS).}
Build info: version: '3.11.0', revision: 'e59cfb3', time: '2018-03-11T20:33:08.638Z'
System info: host: 'IN-GOKUL-D', ip: '172.22.237.81', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '10'
Driver info: driver.version: AndroidDriver
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:326)
	at io.appium.java_client.DefaultGenericMobileDriver.findElement(DefaultGenericMobileDriver.java:62)
	at io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver.findElement(AppiumDriver.java:1)
	at io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver.findElement(AndroidDriver.java:1)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElementByXPath(RemoteWebDriver.java:421)
	at io.appium.java_client.DefaultGenericMobileDriver.findElementByXPath(DefaultGenericMobileDriver.java:140)
	at io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver.findElementByXPath(AppiumDriver.java:1)
	at io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver.findElementByXPath(AndroidDriver.java:1)
	at sign_in.signing.main(signing.java:75)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.google.common.collect.Maps$TransformedEntriesMap cannot be cast to org.openqa.selenium.WebElement
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:324)
	... 8 more

Link to Appium logs

https://gist.github.com/Gocoollnath/18375636f56469faedea7593f454c43f

Code To Reproduce Issue [ Good To Have ]

driver.findElementByXPath(“(//android.app.ActionBar$Tab)[2]”).click();

[liviudanu-ellation]

@Gocoollnath, if xpath does not work, use UiSelector instead.

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