Selectors

For commands that interact with a view, such as tapOn, assertVisible, copyTextFrom among others, require the view to be found using what is called a selector. There are many different selectors available for usage:

- tapOn: # or any other command that works with selectors
    text: "Text"     # (optional) Finds text or accessibility text that matches regexp. 
    id: "id"         # (optional) Finds id that matches regexp
    index: 0         # (optional) 0-based index of the view to select among those that match all other criteria
    point: 50%,50%.  # (optional) Relative position on screen. 50%,50%: Middle of screen
    point: 50, 50    # (optional) Exact coordinates on screen, x:50 y:50, in pixels.
    width: 100       # (optional) Finds element of a given width
    height: 100      # (optional) Finds element of a given height
    tolerance: 10    # (optional) Tolerance to apply when comparing width and height
    enabled: true    # (optional) Searches for view with a given "enabled" state
    checked: true    # (optional) Searches for view with a given "checked" state
    focused: true    # (optional) Searches for view with a given "focused" state
    selected: true   # (optional) Searches for view with a given "selected" state
    optional: false  # (default: false) If set to true, test won't fail if view can't be found

Shorthand selector for text

If you want to use the text selector you can use the shorthand selector like this:

- tapOn: "Text" # or any other command that works with selectors

Relative Position selectors

Apart from the selectors mentioned above, Maestro is also able to select views using their relative position (i.e. "below another view", or "contains child")

- tapOn: # or any other command that works with selectors
    below: "View above that has this text"     # This will match view *above* that has the given text
    above:
        id: "view_below_id"                    # This will match a view *below* that has the given id
    leftOf: "View to the right has this text"
    rightOf: "View to the left has this text"
    containsChild: "Text in a child view"      # This will match a view that has a *direct* child view with the given text
    childOf:                                   # This will help to select from children of view with id 'buy-now'
        - id: "buy-now"
    containsDescendants:                       # This will match a view that has all the descendant views given below
        - id: "title_id"
          text: "A descendant view has id 'title_id' and this text"
        - "Another descendant view has this text"

Selecting one view among many similar

If you have multiple views matching the same selector (i.e. many views with text Hello), use index parameter to specify which one to select exactly. For example, the following command will pick the 3rd view that has text Hello:

- tapOn:
    text: Hello
    index: 2