Hi
I discovered that Appium Desktop gives the ability to verify an Xpath and have got the following xpath from there and saved to an object in Katalon:
//android.view.ViewGroup[@content-desc=“Work Order Sub-Type”]/android.view.View
If I add this object to Mobile Spy, I get an ‘inactive’ icon and when I click on the name, I do not see the element highlighted. This is the case for all xpath that I have edited and saved to an object (ie I have tried to create a relative xpath, rather than the absolute xpath that katalon produces - these are all valid in Appium Studio, and my limited knowledge of xpath) - unable to validate any objects in Spy.
Is there anything that I am missing with Mobile Spy? If there was any way to not use xpath I would do so of course but I don’t have that option!
Screenshot shows my inactive object status, my ‘ViewGroup’ with ‘content-desc’ and view.View below.
I have a further query about Appium Desktop Inspector as well - I am able to ‘send keys’ to objects but cannot do the same with Katalon. Eg I can send text to the xpath above but this fails in Katalon (I am trying to send keys to an element to avoid more work on automating a picker widget. Does Katalon use a different method of sending keys than Appium perhaps? I can attach screenshots if helpful but essentially it uses the Appium Desktop Inspector to perform a limited number of actions eg tap, swipe, send keys, as well as ability to verify locators.
Thanks for any feedback, Dan
