Is there a better way to hide keyboard in Android device?

[Jerald vinoth kumar]

I’m using Appium to automate an Android App. After entering values to the edit fields, I’m calling driver.navigate.back() to close the soft keyboard. Is there a better way to do that?

Is there a way to find whether keyboard is present or not? I would like to call the above function only when the Keyboard is displayed.

Thanks,

Jerald

[bootstrap online]

appium has a hide keyboard method that works on android. It'll only
close the keyboard if it's displayed.

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[lampal...@gmail.com]

There is no way in Appium to find if keyboard is displayed or not. hidekeyboard works fine if keyboard is displayed , otherwise it fails and someties it stops appiumdriver.

 

We have applied following tweaks to overcome this :

1. Make it force appear by tapping on edittext box before entering text and then used hidekeyboard.

2. Use try catch, so it does not stop driver/fail test script, if keyboard is not displayed.

[bootstrap online]

In the Ruby bindings I also wrap it in a try catch so that it doesn't fail if there's no keyboard.

[ANKIT AGARWAL]

I am using appium java binding java-client-1.5.0.jar  and  android device 4.2 version 

an exception is generated  Not yet implemented. Please help us: http://appium.io/get-involved.html (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)

[Jerald vinoth kumar]

When I used the same command last month, it gave me some troubles and I stayed away from that. 

Now it seems to be working fine.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions!

-Jerald