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zostay
zostay

Reputation: 3995

How can a SearchView in the ActionBar be tested?

I can't find any examples or help in the JavaDocs on how to use an Android test to get at the SearchView in the Menu for testing. Is there a way to do it?

I would like to do do a .setQuery("Foo", true) or equivalent to test search in my app. How can that be done?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 915

Answers (2)

Navin Ilavarasan
Navin Ilavarasan

Reputation: 1271

According to this documentation

Note: Although collapsing your action view is optional, we recommend that you always collapse your action view if it includes SearchView. Also be aware that some devices provide a dedicated SEARCH button and you should expand your search action view if the user presses the SEARCH button. Simply override your activity's onKeyUp() callback method, listen for the KEYCODE_SEARCH event, then call expandActionView().

If you have expanded the serach view for the KEYCODE_SEARCH event,then testing should be possible by using the instrumentation to inject events.

public void testSearch() { 
   Instrumentation instrumentation = getInstrumentation(); 
   instrumentation.sendKeyDownUpSync(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_SEARCH); 
   instrumentation.sendCharacterSync(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_F); 
   instrumentation.sendCharacterSync(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_O); 
   instrumentation.sendCharacterSync(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_O);
   //Assert here for whatever you want. 
}

Make sure you have the inject permission in your manifest.

Upvotes: 2

Guillaume
Guillaume

Reputation: 9061

I think you can use monkeyrunner to do that : http://developer.android.com/tools/help/monkeyrunner_concepts.html

Upvotes: 1

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