setValue and sendKeys throw error to set a text in EditText with Appium and Android

[Ana]

What I try to do in order to test my LoginActivity is to set a text in the email Edittext using Appium and Android Studio.

My 1st version of the test included a WebDriver and a Webelementfor the EditText, so i used sendKeys() to set the text.

This is the code:

    

WebDriver driver;

   

   @Before

   public void testApp() throws MalformedURLException, InterruptedException {

       String apkpath = "C:\\Users\\0013498\\Desktop\\qa-XXX-2-2-4-2.apk";

       File app = new File(apkpath);

       DesiredCapabilities capabilities= new DesiredCapabilities();

       capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME,"Android");

       capabilities.setCapability("deviceName","Emulator");

       capabilities.setCapability("platformName","Android");

       capabilities.setCapability("app",app.getAbsolutePath());

       capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "com.XXX.XXX");

       capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", "com.XXX.XXX.SplashScreenActivity");

       driver = new AppiumDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4725/wd/hub"),capabilities);

       driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(3, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

    }

   

   @Test

   public void appiumExampleTest() throws Exception {

   String path="//android.widget.EditText[contains(@resource-id,\"email\")]";

       click(path);

       elementSendText(path, "@");

   }

   public void click(String element) {

       WebElement webElement = driver.findElement(By.xpath(element));

       webElement.click();

       System.out.println("Click element: "+element+" index = "+0);

    }

    public void elementSendText(String element,  String text) {

       WebElement webElement = driver.findElement(By.xpath(element));

       webElement.sendKeys(text);

    }

this is the screenshot from UI Automator Viewer for the LoginActivity where the email EditText is :

BUT sendKeys() throws the following error:

org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command.

So, after some digging, i changed my code to start using AndroidDriver and AndroidElement like this:

   

 AndroidDriver driver;

   @Before

   public void testApp() throws MalformedURLException, InterruptedException {

       String apkpath = "C:\\Users\\0013498\\Desktop\\qa-XXX-2-2-4-2.apk";

       File app = new File(apkpath);

       DesiredCapabilities capabilities= new DesiredCapabilities();

       capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME,"Android");

       capabilities.setCapability("deviceName","Emulator");

       capabilities.setCapability("platformName","Android");

       capabilities.setCapability("app",app.getAbsolutePath());

       capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "com.XXX.XXX");

       capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", "com.XXX.XXX.SplashScreenActivity");      

        driver = new AndroidDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4725/wd/hub"),capabilities);//<----

       driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(3, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

    }

   @Test

   public void appiumExampleTest() throws Exception {

   AndroidElement emailET= (AndroidElement)driver.findElementById("com.XXX.XXX:id/email");//<----

       emailET.click();//<----

       emailET.setValue("@");

   }

and now, setValue() throws the following error:

    

org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Not yet implemented.

And honestly, I don't know how to move forward, i'm so stuck here. This can't be that difficult, what am i missing?

Thanks in advance.