Android Question Resource-Id missing from most views

walterf25

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Hi all, i'm in the middle of wrapping a library used to do some UI Elements Inspection automation, one of the ways to look for elements in an apk file is by Resource-Id, does anyone know how are this names or IDs assigned to a layout, is there a way for us to manually assign this IDs ourselves, attached are some images i took using the UI Automation Viewer that comes with Android SDK, and while inspecting the views I can see that none of the views on the first screenshot have a Resource-Id name, but in the second screenshot on the AlertDialogBox you can see that there are some views which have a Resource-Id assigned to them.

Is this a difference between an app created with B4A and Android Studio?




Any thoughts?
 
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Semen Matusovskiy

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You can set R.id in run time.
For example
B4X: 
Dim jo As JavaObject = EditText1
Dim id As Int = jo.RunMethod ("generateViewId", Null)   
jo.RunMethod ("setId", Array (id))
Log (jo.RunMethod ("getId", Null))
 
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walterf25

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This is good to know, but i wonder why this is not implemented at the time of creating the views either in the designer as a property or programmatically when creating views, anyhow for the tool i'm wrapping the library for this would be a great thing to have as it would make things a lot easier.

Regards,
Walter
 
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walterf25

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from what I understand the Resource-Id i'm referring to is a regular text name that is given to each view, if you look at the images i posted in the first post you can see on the second screenshot that the Resource-Id for the dialogbox title is a string and not a numeric id.

Regards,
Walter
 
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DonManfred

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walterf25 said:
second screenshot that the Resource-Id for the dialogbox title is a string and not a numeric id
Click to expand...
no, it is not an String. the id is a numeric value In this case the numeric value is pointing to a Resource. Here the resource is a String. But the reference to it is a Integer
 
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walterf25

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So I tried this and while it works and sets the Resource Id, i still don't see it when I inspect the views with UIAutomatorViewer, it must be a B4A thing that does not let the Resource Id be set.

Walter
 
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