in Android, Using Webdriverio, How select elment by resource-id?

Question

I'm a new in Appium, I want to create a test to my Android app,

Using the inspector in Device Monitor, I found my element resource-id: com.appPackage:id/categoryIconImageView. and I used it like bellow. And I do not know why it's not working fine?

const wdio = require("webdriverio");

const opts = {
  port: 4723,
  desiredCapabilities: {
    platformName: "Android",
    deviceName: "emulator-5556 device",
    udid: "emulator-5554",
    platformVersion: "8.0.0",
    appPackage: "com.appPackage",
    appActivity: "com.appActivity",
    appWaitActivity: "com.appWaitActivity",
    noReset: "true",
  }
};

const client = wdio.remote(opts);

var s= client.init().element("#com.appPackage:id/categoryIconImageView").click().end();

Appium Log

[HTTP] --> POST /wd/hub/session/028abf5e-43a7-44f6-ab27-9d49e56bab8e/element
[HTTP] {"using":"-android uiautomator","value":"new UiSelector().resourceId('com.opensooq.OpenSooq:id/categoryIconImageView')"}
[debug] [MJSONWP] Calling AppiumDriver.findElement() with args: ["-android uiautomator","new UiSelector().resourceId('com.opensooq.OpenSooq:id/categoryIconImageView')","028abf5e-43a7-44f6-ab27-9d49e56bab8e"]
[debug] [BaseDriver] Valid locator strategies for this request: xpath, id, class name, accessibility id, -android uiautomator
[debug] [BaseDriver] Waiting up to 0 ms for condition
[debug] [AndroidBootstrap] Sending command to android: {"cmd":"action","action":"find","params":{"strategy":"-android uiautomator","selector":"new UiSelector().resourceId('com.opensooq.OpenSooq:id/categoryIconImageView')","context":"","multiple":false}}
[debug] [AndroidBootstrap] Received command result from bootstrap
[debug] [MJSONWP] Matched JSONWP error code 9 to UnknownCommandError
[HTTP] <-- POST /wd/hub/session/028abf5e-43a7-44f6-ab27-9d49e56bab8e/element 500 7 ms - 187

Answer 1

I am using webdriver version ^6.6.3 and I can confirm that you can use:

client.$("id:resource-id-of-the-element");