It seems it's a problem with Appium, it modifies your selector and adds the package name automatically on Android. In short, finding the element fails because you didn't specify the package name in the testID of your app. I've updated the article with some more info and a technical solution, hope it helps!
Hi i am able to find element with xpath but not id for an element where i added testID using webdriverio.
selector = $(
//*[@resource-id="bank"]); worksselector = $(
id:bank); doesn't workThe way you suggested in post
selector = $(
id=bank) also doesn't work.It seems it's a problem with Appium, it modifies your selector and adds the package name automatically on Android. In short, finding the element fails because you didn't specify the package name in the testID of your app. I've updated the article with some more info and a technical solution, hope it helps!
Thanks man this worked but wondering why would react native not implement this in the framework themselves?