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Find element by text inside another element using UISelector query

I have the following code snippet and the screenshot attached.
String query = "new UiScrollable(new UiSelector().className(\"androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView\"))" +
".scrollIntoView(new UiSelector().text(\"Test Group\"))";
driver.findElementByAndroidUIAutomator (query).click ();
What I want is to find an element with the text "Test Group" using UISelector, but inside the RecyclerView only (not searching the whole app source). What I get is the element inside search field instead (not in the RecyclerView).
Please advice. I know that I can get all searched elements using findElements(By.id("name")). But I want to use UI selector in this case.

With UiSelector you can use chaining:
String query = "new UiScrollable(resourseIdMatches(\".*recycler_view\")).scrollIntoView(resourseIdMatches(\".*recycler_view\")).childSelector(text(\"Text Group\")))";
In addition new UiSelector... part can be omitted. Appium does support this syntax.

findElement that is generated HTML during runtime

I'm trying to find an element that is generated from the PCA Predict API, found in this link here. http://www.pcapredict.com/en-gb/address-capture-software/
The code I have at the moment is as follows but it throws an timeout exception due to it not finding any elements. Yet the xpath is correct as I have checked it in developer tools.
By PCA = By.id("inputPCAnywhere");
driver.findElement(PCA).clear();
driver.findElement(PCA).sendKeys(ValidPostcode);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//div[#class='pcaitem pcafirstitem']")));
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[#class='pcaitem pcafirstitem']")).click();
The element is visible on the page, and developer tools only returns one result that that xpath, there is no ID's to find it by.

It looks like that the first item is getting "selected" by default leading to it's class value being equal to the following:
<div class="pcaitem pcafirstitem pcaselected"...>...</div>
All other following results have only pcaitem class, but none have a pcaitem pcafirstitem class value.
In other words, your problem is the strict class match. I would improve the locator to have a partial match on the class attribute. For instance, with a CSS selector:
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector(".pcaitem.pcafirstitem")));

XPath- Getting Element from a table having dynamic ID

I'm trying to automate my Test Cases using Selenium for an OBIEE application. Now, I need to read a value from a tabular report generated. The problem is, the ID of the last cell where the total is, keeps on changing.
For example- Currently the id is: db_saw_9270_6_1610_0.
After refreshing, the ID becomes something else. The 4 numbers in between (9270) changes. The remaining bit are the same. I'm using the following logic to capture this element:
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[contains(#id, '_6_1610_0')]")).getText();
But, it is returning org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element:
Please tell me where did I go wrong and what should I do?

you can try starts-with and substring (as a substitute for xpath 2.0 methdod ends-with):
string xpath = "//*[starts-with(#id, 'db_saw_') and substring(#id, string-length(#id) - 8) = '_6_1610_0']"
driver.findElement(By.xpath(xpath)).getText();

You can try below xpath:-
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[starts-with(#id, 'db_saw')]")).getText();

driver.findElement(By.CSSselector("a[id*='_6_1610_0']")).getText();
Note: the a represents a html element. If your id is in a element then you have to replace a by table.
Check this out for more examples with css selector

Appium unable to get "content-desc" attribute data

In the below case, Appium is correctly able to locate elements by class, but when we want to manipulate the data based on each element's content-desc we see an error. Why can't we get attribute for content-desc?
Any advice appreciated.
List<WebElement> arrayOfProperties2 = driver.findElementsByClassName("android.view.View");
List<WebElement> propertyMarkerEle = new ArrayList<>();
System.out.println("Found arrayOfProperties2 total: "+ arrayOfProperties2.size());
for (WebElement property : arrayOfProperties2){
String contentDesc = property.getAttribute("content-desc");
if (contentDesc.contains("property"))
propertyMarkerEle.add(property);
Error: Found arrayOfProperties2 total: 32
org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: An element could not be
located on the page using the given search parameters. (WARNING: The
server did not provide any stacktrace information)

Use "name"
property.getAttribute("name");

The list of accepted attribute names can be found in boolean attrbutes and string attributes.
The boolean attributes are:
enabled
checkable
checked
clickable
focusable
focused
longClickable
scrollable
selected
displayed
The string attibutes are:
contentDescription
text
className
resourceId
I tested this using the python bindings.
Credit goes to TikhomirovSergey in a github comment.

try this:
driver.findElement(By.AccessibilityID(""));

text can be used as
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#text='Remove Contact']"))
OR content-desc can be used as
driver.findElement(By.name("Remove Contact"))
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#content-desc='Remove Contact']"))
driver.findElement(By.name("Remove Contact"))

Problems with element locating with XPath in Selenium-RC

I'm trying to perform very simple automated test. I created XPath selector in a FirePath, here it is:
//a[#href='http://i.yandex.ru/'][span[contains(.,'ledak.e.v#yandex.by')]]
But Selenium-RC can't locate this element. Code is:
final String StrEmailToTest = "ledak.e.v#yandex.by";
String linkEmailSelector = "//a[#href='http://i.yandex.ru/'][span[contains(.,'"+ StrEmailToTest + "')]]";
selenium.isElementPresent(linkEmailSelector);
and it returns "false"
Could you tell me, what am I doing wrong?
UPD. I've uploaded the *.maft - file here: http://depositfiles.com/files/lhcdh2wtl
Don't be afraid, there are some russian characters on the screen.

Shouldn't your XPath be:
"//a[#href='http://i.yandex.ru/']/span[contains(.,'"+ StrEmailToTest + "')]";

My guess is that selenium is looking for the element even before it's loaded. Is it a dynamically loaded/generated element? If so, use waitForElementPresent(). If not, try changing the method of element identification - use id or name and then try to execute it. To make sure your xpath is correct, in the selenium IDE/plugin for firefox, type the path of the element(issue some random command for command field) and click on "Find Element". If it finds, then selenium has no problem finding it, given that the page/element is loaded or generated. If not, you will have to ask Selenium to wait till the element is loaded.