Crosslocator — define a UI selector once, resolve it on every platform

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Hi all,

I released a small, dependency-free library for a recurring pain in cross-platform
testing: maintaining the same locator for Android, iOS, iPadOS and Windows.

You define a selector once per platform, and crosslocator resolves the right one
at runtime:

from crosslocator import Locator

LOGIN = Locator(
    android="accessibility_id=login",
    ios="accessibility_id=login",
    windows='//Button[@Name="Log in"]',
    default="id=login",
)
LOGIN.resolve()  # the right selector for the current platform

It works with pure Python (Appium) and Robot Framework (a small library exposing
Set Current Platform / Resolve Locator keywords). It can also auto-detect the
platform from the active Appium session. iPad falls back to iOS selectors, and a
shared default covers the rest.

It’s an early release (v0.2). Feedback and issues are very welcome — especially on
the Robot Framework integration and the locator formats you’d like supported.

Thanks!