how to convert findElementByAndroidUIAutomator in Page Factory Format for Appium

I am currently designing Appium Android framework based on page object and page Factory.

I have a below line of code which uses “findElementByAndroidUIAutomator”.

driver.findElementByAndroidUIAutomator("new UiScrollable(new UiSelector()).scrollIntoView(text("Brazil"));");

I wanted to convert it to page Factory format like below example.

@AndroidFindBy(id="android:id/text1")
    public WebElement clickOnDropDown;

As I checked I didn’t not find any definite answers regarding this. Just wanted to check as findElementByAndroidUIAutomator is android function not appium. So how can we convert this line to page factory format ?

Answer

You can do it this way:

@AndroidFindBy(uiAutomator = "new UiScrollable(new UiSelector()).scrollIntoView(text("Brazil"));")
public WebElement brazilLabel;

The only downside is that you can’t pass argument (“e.g Brazil”) to annotation