Appium xpath contain follow not working

Question

I am not able to use xpath contain and follow strategies in Appium. I dont know is it supported in Appium. Api level 19 . Can anyone please help: I have to click on Text View showing balance ie. INR ..... So i am using

   driver.findElement(By.xpath("//android.widget.TextView[contains(@name,'INR')]"));
   and     
  driver.findElement(By.xpath("//android.widget.TextView[contains(text(),'INR')]"));

but nothing works

Solution 1

@Sahil Sehgal : Becuase your element doesn't have name attribute so you can use text attribute to find element. In the below example I have added check for "Available balance" and "INR". Use the one which suits your need -

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//android.widget.TextView[contains(@text, 'Available Balance')]")).click();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//android.widget.TextView[contains(@text, 'INR')]")).click();

Solution 2

Search with the full text. Hopefully this will work.

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//android.widget.TextView[@text='INR 1,567.89']")).click();

Comments

[Sahil Sehgal]

that is the main issue. I have tried with the above codes but it is not able to find element.

[Suman]

Can you post error logs? which one did you try? In the solution above, I am using @text not text()

[Suman]

in the above solution, xpath will work only for this balance (INR 1,567.89 ) when customer balance will change, test will fail.

[Sahil Sehgal]

,I suppose '@text' is not valid syntax in xpath

[Akorna]

As weird as it seems, @text is correct syntax for xpath when it concerns Appium.