Solo.sendkey() function Home Hardware Button about robotium HOT 9 CLOSED

From [email protected] on December 07, 2010 02:20:08

Thanks for this. This will be fixed in the next release.

Status: Accepted
Owner: renasreda

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From [email protected] on December 07, 2010 11:37:59

This issue has been resolved in Robotium 2.0

Status: Verified

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From [email protected] on December 17, 2010 01:32:47

While the KeyCode of Solo.LEFT has been changed, the function does not provide the possibility to perform mySolo.sendkey(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_HOME).

Maybe changing the following procedure in Solo like that:

public void sendKey(int key)
{
    switch (key) {
        case RIGHT:
            robotiumUtils.sendKeyCode(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_RIGHT);
            break;
        case LEFT:
            robotiumUtils.sendKeyCode(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_LEFT);
            break;
        case UP:
            robotiumUtils.sendKeyCode(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_UP);
            break;
        case DOWN:
            robotiumUtils.sendKeyCode(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_DOWN);
            break;
        case ENTER:
            robotiumUtils.sendKeyCode(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER);
            break;
        case MENU:
            robotiumUtils.sendKeyCode(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_MENU);
            break;
        case DELETE:
            robotiumUtils.sendKeyCode(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL);
            break;
        default:
            try {
                robotiumUtils.sendKeyCode(key);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                // TODO: handle exception
            }
            break;
    }
}

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From [email protected] on December 28, 2010 00:52:47

Thanks for this, I have updated sendKey now.

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From [email protected] on February 16, 2011 01:52:21

Unless I am wrong this issue has reappeared in version 2.1

A manual click in the emulator works fine.
Using robotium with
solo.sendKey(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_HOME);
does not take the application to Home screen

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From [email protected] on February 16, 2011 01:56:34

Setup for Comment 5:
Using Android 2.2
OS: Ubuntu Linux 10.04 in a VirtualBox 3.2.12 hosted on Windows 7

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From [email protected] on February 16, 2011 02:01:16

No, it has not reapeared. Its not for sure that KEYCODE_HOME does take one to the homescreen. If you e.g. try solo.sendKey(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_VOLUME_UP) or any other KeyEvent that is working fron an application point of view you will see that it works.

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From [email protected] on February 16, 2011 02:24:18

Sorry for bothering but why is not guaranteed that KEYCODE_HOME takes you to the Home screen ?

From the API documentation one can read that KEYCODE_HOME is never delivered to the application, is this the problem?

-------------------snip---------------------------------
public static final int KEYCODE_HOME
Since: API Level 1

Key code constant: Home key. This key is handled by the framework and is never delivered to applications.
Constant Value: 3 (0x00000003
-------------------/snip----------------------------------

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From [email protected] on August 07, 2014 06:47:24

I asked about this here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25184160/android-instrumentation-home-button

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