Q: AutomationId not getting set on Android with Forms

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I have a suite of UITest for our Xamarin Forms project. All of the AutomationId's are present in the XAML file and work fine on the iOS project. However when running the tests on Android the AutomationId is not there which is causing my tests to fail.

I've doubled checked using REPL and tree to inspect each view for it's Id's

Can you post the code in question? – wogsland May 18 '16 at 19:34 — wogsland, May 18 '16 at 19:34
did you solve your problem? – Hussein Khalil Jul 24 '19 at 10:40 — Hussein Khalil, Jul 24 '19 at 10:40

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 18 '16 at 19:38

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Are you initializing the AutomationId's in the OnCreate of the MainActivity in the Android native project?

After the Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init (this, bundle); :

Xamarin.Forms.Forms.ViewInitialized += (object sender, Xamarin.Forms.ViewInitializedEventArgs e) => {
   if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace (e.View.AutomationId)) {
      e.NativeView.ContentDescription = e.View.AutomationId;
   }
};

answered May 18 '16 at 19:38

SushiHangover

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Yes, I double checked. Did a clean build as well. – Mike May 18 '16 at 22:48
@Mike Does that delegate ever get called? – SushiHangover May 18 '16 at 22:50
Yes, it's getting called. I stepped thru and the `AutomationId` is getting set, but when running an actual test or looking at `tree` in `REPL` the `AutomationId` is not present. – Mike May 19 '16 at 15:16

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 13 '18 at 05:26

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In android app build using Xamarin Forms, the automation id is converted to cont-desc. You can use cont-desc for your test.

answered Nov 13 '18 at 05:26

Suban Dhyako

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 25 '17 at 18:56

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There is no automationId itself visible in REPL, but only label or id with the value equal to that set on the automationId, so you should just use Marked passing in the value.

answered Oct 25 '17 at 18:56

user8833605

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Q: AutomationId not getting set on Android with Forms

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