#Appium app xpath finder how to

Hence in this article, we will only cover the main differences that are there in these two tools. Appium Desktop Inspector uses the same methods as UI Automator Viewer to identify the elements in your mobile app –Īlso, the properties of the mobile elements, such as resource-id, content-desc, text etc, will be same in both the tools. The are slight differences in the UI of both the tools, but the underlying logic of identifying elements remains the same. The way you inspect elements in mobile app is exactly the same in UIAutomatorViewer and Appium Desktop Inspector. Well, the short and sweet answer to this question is – Yes. Is mobile inspection method similar in Appium Desktop Inspector and UIAutomatorViewer? Do you think the concepts in this article will be any different from what we had mentioned for UIAutomatorViewer? Let’s first figure this out. If you have followed our Appium Tutorial series, then you would remember that we have already done a similar article which used UIAutomatorViewer.

#Appium app xpath finder how to

In this article, we will cover the next steps, i.e., you will learn how to inspect mobile elements using Appium Desktop Inspector.

The article explained in detail, the process of setting up Desired Capabilities using which the Inspector can launch the mobile app on your device. This article is a continuation of our previous one on Appium Desktop Inspector, where you learned about how to connect Appium Desktop Inspector to your mobile device.