testID information not visible on UIAutomator in Appium.

Hi there,

We are doing an automation test for Android (API version 21) on Appium.

And we are using UI Automator Viewer to see the node details information and we need resource-id information visible in order to test for unique nodes so we know which elements are being interacted.

But currently, resource-id column is empty even though we have applied testId property on each <View>.

Please close this issue if there is a duplicate, otherwise please advise on what we can do to have each nodes to have unique id’s specified from testId value provided.

Thanks,

Sam

[tayunus]

we are suffering and they don’t care…

the problem is that some people say that testID will add a tag to the element, but Appium doesn’t support it.

some people say Appium cut the support for tag in version 1.5: i tried it and it didn’t work in version 1.4.

some people are saying that tag will be activated in Appium version 2 because of uiautomator 2 (i think), but nothing new on that.

there is a tool called cavy, but it doesn’t have support at all, it’s a couple of months old…

i think the best thing we can do is to use accessibility label and add a special key in front of everything so that we can find and comment it thru out the whole application, i guess something like:

accessibilityLabel=“ID button1” accessibilityLabel=“ID button2” . . . and then find (accessibilityLabel="ID) and replace it with (//accessibilityLabel="ID)

[gmaggess]

I wonder if this has been forgotten by the react native team…