Difference captured object in my katalon with my teammates

[faiq.dhms]

Hello, today I run test android-katalon that my friends had made, but failed/error which it mention that input_email_phone not found.

input_email_phone has xpath android.widget.EditText

After that I tried to re-record using the Mobile Recorder, and after I runtest, it all passed, Unlike the testcase made by my friend who failed when input_email_phone.
Then I tried to compare the input_email_phone repository object that my friend had created with the captured object that I just created.

It turns out that there is a difference in xpath, my katalin saves the object as an AutoCompleteTextView while at my friend’s OR (and git repository) it is stored as an EditText. I want to ask why this happens and how to make my place object can be captured as EditText the same as the others. Thank you please help

[kenzie.rigole]

this sounds like a phone specific implementation of that field, where it changes depending on certain parameters
however, since the element has a resource-id, you can remove the class from the locator and it should work as expected regardless of what kind of element the widget actually is
so the locator would become //*[@resource-id=‘insert resource id’]