Android secure textfield not found

[appium]

Android secure textfield not found

[jlipps]

do you know what the name of the android widget is that corresponds to the secure textfield? like com.android.widget.xxxxx

[bootstraponline]

do you know what the name of the android widget is that corresponds to the secure textfield?

In calabash-android I do query "edittext id:'password_edit'" For my app I have a custom class that extends EditText. Both regular textfields and secure textfields use the same widget. android:password controls if it's used to display a password or not.

[bootstraponline]

$driver.find_elements :tag_name, :editText finds both the secure text field and the regular text field.

[jlipps]

What happens if you pass in "com.yourcompany.yourapp.YourCustomWidget" as the tag name? I wonder if uiautomator can see custom controls.

[bootstraponline]

What happens if you pass in "com.yourcompany.yourapp.YourCustomWidget" as the tag name?

It doesn't find it.

Selenium::WebDriver::Error::NoSuchElementError: An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters.

[jlipps]

hmm, looks like this might be a fundamental limit of the uiautomator approach. only thing i found via google is this unanswered question: http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/questions/14948341/how-to-fill-in-password-edittext-with-android-uiautomator.

alternative: select your password field by content-description (i.e., by "name") after setting one in the app.

[bootstraponline]

edittext finds the custom widget so that works. If id selection was implemented then that'd be perfect. #228

[jlipps]

Back to the custom finding possibility, please check out: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/uiautomator/UiSelector.html#className(java.lang.String)

Does this spark any thought about what a different "className" could be that you could pass in as a selector? maybe not com.yourCompany.yourApp.xxx? Is there something that's equivalent to android.widget.XXX in your own package-space?

[bootstraponline]

We'd probably want to make an example app.

package com.my.widgets;

public class EditText extends android.widget.EditText {

I'm using the fully qualified class name com.my.widgets.EditText so I don't think it could be anything else.

[jlipps]

Hmm. well the documentation doesn't say one way or another whether custom controls are findable by class in UiSelector. I guess this implies they are not! But good thing it extends EditText and so is findable. As I wrote in #228, finding by the android id doesn't seem possible. So unless you can think of anything else I'm going to close this issue. The two options are for doing what you want are:

1. find the password field as a regular text field by index
2. set a content-description for the password field and find by that

[bootstraponline]

I think searching for tag name secure on Android should throw an error because it's not possible to implement using uiautomator. The current behavior implies that it searched and didn't find any.

[jlipps]

fixed in #234

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