Appium cannot get content-desc attribute data

Question

In the example below, Appium can correctly find elements by class, but when we want to manipulate data based on each content-desc element, we see an error. Why can't we get the attribute for content-desc? Any advice is appreciated.

List<WebElement> arrayOfProperties2 = driver.findElementsByClassName("android.view.View"); List<WebElement> propertyMarkerEle = new ArrayList<>(); System.out.println("Found arrayOfProperties2 total: "+ arrayOfProperties2.size()); for (WebElement property : arrayOfProperties2){ String contentDesc = property.getAttribute("content-desc"); if (contentDesc.contains("property")) propertyMarkerEle.add(property); 

Error: Found arrayOfProperties2 total: 32
org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: the item cannot be located on the page using these search parameters. (WARNING: the server did not provide any stack information)

Answer 1

Use "name"

property.getAttribute("name");

Answer 2

A list of accepted attribute names can be found in boolean attrbutes and string attributes .

Logical Attributes:

• switched on
• verifiable
• checked
• interactive
• focusable
• focused
• longClickable
• to scroll
• selected
• is displayed

Suitable lines:

• contentDescription
• text
• class name
• RESOURCEID

I tested this using python bindings.

The credit goes to TikhomirovSergey in a github comment .

Answer 3

try the following:

driver.findElement(By.AccessibilityID(""));

Answer 4

text OR descending content can be used as

 driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@text='Remove Contact']")) 

can be a user like

 driver.findElement(By.name("Remove Contact")) driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@content-desc='Remove Contact']")) 

can be used as

 driver.findElement(By.name("Remove Contact"))