Generating Android device events

[Steve Hastings]

If you are working directly in Android UI Automator, writing Java code, you have full access to Android device events.  Examples:

getUiDevice().pressHome();  // press "Home" button to switch to desktop

getUiDevice().pressBack();  // press the "back" button

Checking the Wiki, I see that Appium has support for tap and swipe events.  Does Appium also have support for these device events?  I could fake a "Home" or "back" event by figuring out the X,Y coordinates of those GUI controls and issuing a tap event, but I would of course prefer to do this in a way that doesn't depend on the screen resolution of the specific device.

I have an app where the only way to dismiss a dialog is the "back" button.  I think this is a common thing, actually.

Also, some Android devices have direction pads or other hard keys, and probably all Android devices have volume control hard keys.  So I hope there will be a way to issue key events in Appium.

P.S. When I use Appium, I prefer to use the Python bindings, so if there is a way to do this, I would very much appreciate a Python example. I imagine it will probably need to use driver.execute_script(), which is fine with me at least for now.

Thanks.

[bootstrap online]

On Android with Ruby, you can go back using: $driver.navigate.back

There's also a mobile: keyevent method to send a key event to Android. Both methods should work using any of the bindings.

[Steve Hastings]

I have checked, and my Python bindings don't seem to have driver.navigate.  I modified my test script, and once connected to Appium it prints str(dir(driver)) and there is nothing in there that looks like "navigate".

But your suggestion of using "mobile: keyevent" is spot on.  Code 4 is the Back key:

driver.execute_script("mobile: keyevent", {"keycode":4})

Of course I have wrapped this in a nice function.  Thanks.

[Jonathan Lipps]

I believe python has driver.back()

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[Ritika Mishra]

I am able to preform "driver.navigate().back()", but not able to perform action on other device buttons, like the HOME button and the MENU button 

[bootstrap online]

You can look up the keyevent codes. For example, home is 3.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html#KEYCODE_HOME

[Ritika Mishra]

Hi, i tried using the KeyEvent code, but every time i execute it, i get :

info: [ADB] Sending keyevent NaN

info: Responding to client with success: {"status":0,"value":null,"sessionId":"53369111-a7ef-4527-8b47-b45a2839f6d5"}

no action takes place.

Thanks.

[bootstrap online]

That means you didn't send a number.

[Jonathan Lipps]

Remember that the parameters to executeScript need to be wrapped in an array in many languages (incl Java). So, in js:

driver.executeScript("mobile: keyevent", [{keycode: 3}]);

Notice that {keycode: 3} is inside an array.

[Evgenii]

Hi Jonathan,

Could you please help. I run this command in python script:

self.driver.execute_script('mobile: keyevent', [{'keycode': 82}])

Result is:

[ADB] Sending keyevent NaN

Is sintaxis wrong? 

I found work around:

os.system("adb shell input keyevent 82")

which is works great for me, it taps menu button

вторник, 23 апреля 2013 г., 6:39:17 UTC-7 пользователь Jonathan Lipps написал:

[Dan Cuellar]

Check out this page on how to call mobile methods

https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/gestures.md

[Evgenii]

I tried both ways:

self.driver.execute_script('mobile: keyevent', [{'keycode': 82}])

self.driver.execute_script('mobile: keyevent', [{'keycode': '82'}])

result the same

вторник, 30 июля 2013 г., 19:05:38 UTC-7 пользователь Dan Cuellar написал:

[bootstrap online]

Are you running Appium from source? A bug was fixed related to this on
Selendroid.

[Jonathan Lipps]

In python, you don't need the extra []

self.driver.execute_script('mobile: keyevent', {'keycode': 82})

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[Aakanksha Malhotra]

hi 

Can somebody please guide about this in java ?? i.e how to automate back event using appium in java

[Jonathan Lipps]

use the regular webdriver back() method. Should be in the java webdriver docs.

On Jan 15, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Aakanksha Malhotra <amalho...@gmail.com> wrote:

hi 

Can somebody please guide about this in java ?? i.e how to automate back event using appium in java

[CY_suncheng]

hello , i use driver.back() for appium 0.18 and it works well, but when i upgrade appium to 1.1, it does not work and no any error message

在 2013年4月19日星期五UTC+8下午12时14分41秒，Jonathan Lipps写道：

[Isaac Murchie]

`driver.back()` seems to be working fine. It ends up calling `pressBack` on the device.

The logs:

debug: Appium request initiated at /wd/hub/session/c198c229-f4e0-4ac7-af7b-cb1f753c295f/back

debug: Request received with params: {"sessionId":"c198c229-f4e0-4ac7-af7b-cb1f753c295f"}

debug: Pushing command to appium work queue: ["pressBack"]

debug: [BOOTSTRAP] [info] Got data from client: {"cmd":"action","action":"pressBack","params":{}}

debug: [BOOTSTRAP] [info] Got command of type ACTION

debug: [BOOTSTRAP] [debug] Got command action: pressBack

debug: [BOOTSTRAP] [info] Returning result: {"value":true,"status":0}

debug: Responding to client with success: {"status":0,"value":true,"sessionId":"c198c229-f4e0-4ac7-af7b-cb1f753c295f"}

POST /wd/hub/session/c198c229-f4e0-4ac7-af7b-cb1f753c295f/back 200 1293.584 ms - 76

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