Back to Appium Tutorial Index Element Location Strategy - Launch UIAutomationViewer as - uiautomatorviewer & Following is an example for UIAutomationViewer and using it to find elements on Android App. Herein an image of UIAutomationViewer with calculator application - The Element 64 can be identified as - driver.findElement(By.name("64")); driver.findElement(By.id("com.android.calculator2:id/formula")); driver.findElement(By.className("android.widget.EditText")); Element location by TagName is deprecated. Refer Stackoverflow post1 and post2 for more on this. You can also use xPath strategy to identify element as described in this post . Appium also supports Mobile JSON Wire Protocol locator strategy - -ios uiautomation : a string corresponding to a recursive element search using the UIAutomation library (iOS-only) -android uiautomator : a string corresponding to a recursive element search