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user2983190

Reputation:

Appium sendKeys really slow on android

I'm currently testing an application using Appium on an android device (appium version: 1.2.4.1, java-client: 2.1.0). I'm using the following code to send some text in a textField:

   driver.findElement(By.name("Name")).sendKeys("My Name");

and it works fine just it takes it too long to actually send the text on the textbox (usually 7 seconds). I was wondering does anybody know another way to send text on a textField that takes less?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 5

Views: 11474

Answers (9)

Norman Daniel Vicente
Norman Daniel Vicente

Reputation: 73

Set in capabiblities:

desiredCapabilities.setCapability("appium:disableWindowAnimation", true);

Upvotes: 0

Dng
Dng

Reputation: 131

For new commer, in the Appium version 1.9~, both method executeJavaScript() & setValue() works so good, and you can consider to use it.

// use js
executeJavaScript("$('#" + fieldId + "').val(testData);

// use setValue
$(By.id(fieldId)).setValue(testData);

Upvotes: 1

Maximus
Maximus

Reputation: 21

This capabilities helped me to reduce the time of inputs on Android

desiredCapabilities.setCapability("ignoreUnimportantViews", true);
desiredCapabilities.setCapability("disableAndroidWatchers", true);

You can find more here https://appium.io/docs/en/writing-running-appium/caps/#android-only

Upvotes: 2

barbudito
barbudito

Reputation: 578

I improved the speed of my test (written in Python) using:

driver.set_value(myElement, "My Name")

instead of:

webElement.send_keys("My Name")

If you are using Java, it will be something similar to:

driver.setValue(driver.findElement(By.name("Name")), "My Name")

Another approach could be with adb... (This is the fastest one but you have to use another thing besides appium)

//1st - Click at your WebElement 
driver.click(driver.findElement(By.name("Name")))

//2nd - Using adb send your text
//adb shell input text "My Name"
adb shell input keyboard text "My Name"

Upvotes: 0

Babken Vardanyan
Babken Vardanyan

Reputation: 15030

Replace sendKeys with the setValue method available in later versions of appium:

driver.findElement(By.name("Name")).setValue("My Name");

It is much faster in my experience.

Upvotes: 1

positivecrux
positivecrux

Reputation: 1377

I solved this issue by using adb to send text instead of appium!It is really fast!

try {
     textElement.click();  
     new ProcessBuilder(new String[]{"adb", "-s", "YOURDEVICEUUID", "shell", "input", "text", "YOURTEXTASINPUT"})
       .redirectErrorStream(true)
       .start();
} catch (IOException e) {
   e.printStackTrace();
}

Same way you may use this for Click,clear,install,uninstall etc.. there may be some need to sleep thread for sync issues but it is only 50ms which is too less than 5 seconds which appium takes! You may use DDMLIB to make this adb call instead of ProcessBuilder!

Upvotes: 5

Emna Ayadi
Emna Ayadi

Reputation: 2460

Try to add the following capabilities inorder to have appium keyboard(and not the physical keyboard)

capabilities.setCapability("resetKeyboard", true);
capabilities.setCapability("unicodeKeyboard", true);

Upvotes: 1

Jaskaran
Jaskaran

Reputation: 380

Try :

driver.findElement(By.name("Name")).Click();
driver.Keyboard.SendKeys("My Name");

This should run faster then your method.

Upvotes: 3

Andry
Andry

Reputation: 16845

Experiencing slow automation on Appium is common because Appium is based on a client/server architecture. Network issues can influence the performance of a test (unless you are running your test in the same machine where Appium is installed).

I can tell you that I have also experienced problems with slow tests on Appium. It usually happens on simulators/emulators by the way.

Send keys as part of a UX scenario

If your test needs to send keys as part of a User Experience scenario, then SendKeys is your only option. This method does not simply set a value in a textbox, it actually behaves like a user pressing keys and sending keys to a textbox.

If this is what you need, then you need to understand what is happening a network level because this is what your problem is about. Also consider that this method can be slow on its own sometimes (this is my experience).

Setting a text is not important for the UX scenario being tested

In case the step of setting a textbox's value is not a core part of your automation for the specific test being considered, you an always do achieve this by means of ExecuteScript which lets you execute a Javascript code in your app. I am assuming you are automating the WebView context.

int result = driver.executeScript("
    try {
        var el = document.getElementById('<your-txtbox-id-here>');
        el.value = '<your-text-here>';
        return 0;
    } catch {
        return 1;
    }
");

Java does not support multiline strings so the previous is a prettyprint of the following:

int result = driver.executeScript("try{var el = document.getElementById('<your-txtbox-id-here>');el.value = '<your-text-here>';return 0;}catch{return 1;}");

This method will return 0 in case the string was successfully set, otherwise 1. It should be faster because the driver will not send each key separately but execute the script in an anonymous function and get back its return value.

Upvotes: 1

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