Mobile Custom XPATH locator

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Hi I have a question does xpath in mobile & web works the same way? In Web i can use xpath like following-sibling but does it work the same way for mobile ? Cause i tried it seems to not be working ??

This is the custom xpath that i made //*[@class = ‘android.widget.TextView’ and (@text = ‘User ID’ or . = ‘User ID’)]/following-sibling::android.widget.ViewGroup/descendant::android.widget.EditText

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Was it the wrong syntax??

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I might try some variation on your pathway, since you have several ‘siblings’. So, how about?

//*[@class = 'android.widget.TextView' and (@text = 'User ID' or . = 'User ID')]/following-sibling::android.widget.ViewGroup[1]/android.widget.EditText

or maybe even

//*[@text = 'User ID' or . = 'User ID']/following-sibling::android.widget.ViewGroup[1]/android.widget.EditText
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I haven’t been able to get the follow-sibling to work on mobile but I believe you can use this custom xpath to do the same thing:

//*[@class = ‘android.widget.TextView’ and (@text = ‘User ID’ or . = ‘User ID’)]/..//*[@class = 'android.widget.EditText']
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The bit in bold below - I can’t see that anywhere in the hierarchy, so syntax might be correct but one of your nodes is not:

“This is the custom xpath that i made //*[@class = ‘android.widget.TextView’ and (@text = ‘User ID’ or . = ‘User ID’)]/following-sibling::android.widget.ViewGroup/descendant::android.widget.EditText”