How to click on an iOS MobileElement (button) whose attribute "name" is dynamically generated on the run using Xpath?

Question

Below is the XPath-

//XCUIElementTypeButton[@name="8/13"]

The numeric value in the above XPath changes and is not static. There are more then 10 buttons on the screen, I want to click on the first one.

Text1                 btn1   //let’s say btn1 contains 8/13

Text2                 btn2   //let’s say btn1 contains 4/8

Can anyone help me to achieve this task?

Answer 1

I think in XPath you are using the name or value which may be dynamic (keeps on changing). So, you can go for the concept of following sibling for getting the proper XPath.

Example:

 //XCUIElementTypeButton[@name='testing']/../following-sibling::XCUIElementTypeStaticText

Answer 2

If you are specifically mentioning as you want to click on the first button no matter the text, then I would go with List concept

@FindBy(xpath = "//XCUIElementTypeButton")
    private List<MobileElement> button;

button.get(0).click();