IOS hide keyboard

[James McMahon]

Is there a simple way to hide the native keyboard?

I'm completing a web form in an IOS web app using touch("webView css:'##{label}'") When I've completed the form, I would like to hide the keyboard and click submit rather than use 'done' or the keyboard 'search/go' etc. functionality.

I've used a range of queries in the console and can't seem to find the keyboard keys (looked at views like UIKBKeyplaneView, UIKeyboardCornerView etc etc), let alone the actual keyboard.

The specific key that I'm after actually has an accessibility label 'Hide keyboard' (see screen shot) but using the predefined step "Then I touch "accLabel" using Hide keyboard doesn't find it.

Error:

(::) failed steps (::)

playback failed because: query view marked:'Hide keyboard' found no views. Is accessibility enabled?

 (RuntimeError)

features/contactus_name_invalid.feature:20:in `Then I touch "Hide keyboard"'

Any help would be much appreciated!

[James McMahon]

I found it. This one is quite handy.

keyboard_enter_char("Dismiss")

[Mayank Jain]

Thanks for sharing.

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Mayank.

[Krukow]

Good! For reference, docs for keyboard_enter_char (https://github.com/calabash/calabash-ios/wiki/03.5-Calabash-iOS-Ruby-API) 

state the following possible special values:

'Dictation'

'Shift'

'Delete'

'Return'

'International'

'More'

[Maksym Grebenets]

Those docs are still not complete.

Here are two more hints I found out by poking around:

To tap the button that has "," and "!" you need to use ",!" value for keyboard_enter_char.

Unexpected, right? Not "," or "!", but both of them in this particular order.

Same goes for ".?"

But I still have 1 button I have no idea how to tap using scripts.

It's the "more, symbols" button with "#+=" title, the one you see when going from letters pane to numbers pane.

Anyone knows what's the reference value for that button?

[Krukow]

Thanks, I've updated the docs to cover this case.

The "#+=" is actually "Shift", a bit surprising, but it is in the same physical position.

- Karl

[John Bateman]

keyboard_enter_char("Dismiss")
This seems simple enough, but when I attempted to enter it via the console (with the keyboard present), the system returned the following message:

RuntimeError: Keyboard enter failed failed because: Found no key: Dismiss
from /<path omitted>/gems/calabash-cucumber-0.9.144/lib/calabash-cucumber/tests_helpers.rb:56:in `screenshot_and_raise'
from /<path omitted>/gems/calabash-cucumber-0.9.144/lib/calabash-cucumber/keyboard_helpers.rb:32:in `keyboard_enter_char'
    from (irb):

I got the same result when running as an excuted step.

What might be different for my setup? Why doesn't this command dismiss the keyboard ?

Helpful (??) info:
rvm gemset list returns:

gemsets for ruby-1.9.3-p385 (found in /Users/apple/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p385)
   (default)
   calabash
   frank
   global
   rails3tutorial2ndEd

[Maksym Grebenets]

Just to confirm. Are you sure you're trying this on iPad device or simulator?

As I understand "Dismiss" maps to the "hide keyboard" button, which is available only on iPad, but not on iPhone.

iPhone keyboard does not have this button and normally keyboard is dismissed when you tap "return" (or whatever way it's implemented in your app).

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[John Bateman]

Ah, when you say simulator you mean iPad simulator not iphone simulator. I was trying it on iOS 5.2 SIMULATOR.

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John Bateman
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[Maksym Grebenets]

Right, I meant iPad device and iPad simulator.

"Dismiss" does nothing for iPhone keyboard.

[Shuker]

Try with

send_app_to_background 0.5