Enter Text without SendKeys

Issues/Bugs
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As observed , SendKeys is too slow in Appium

Is there any other API/Method to enter text other than Sendkeys which enter text faster?

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Hello Every One!

C I expect your valuable replies

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Did you try using setValue() ?

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((AndroidElement) el).setValue("text");
((AndroidElement) el).replaceValue("text");
((IOSElement) el).setValue("text");
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Thanks for your Reply Aleksei.

I am trying to automate only Android App and new to Appium…
Could you send elaborated code(bit in details)

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@anandappium sorry did not get what you mean? change “el” to your element and that is all.

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tried:

((AndroidElement) patientInfoPage.patientNmeTxt).setValue(“text”);
((AndroidElement) patientInfoPage.patientNmeTxt).replaceValue(“text23”);

where patientInfoPage.patientNmeTxt is WebElement
not working…

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any other suggestions,
please

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if your client WEB or in WEBVIEW of NATIVE then you need first switch to webview.

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You can use adb on Android (I have a custom test method that uses execSync to call ‘adb shell input text’). Watch out for spaces in your strings though - replace them with %s before sending.

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Hi Jonesdar,

You mean passing passing text through adb?

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Yes. I use the node flavour of Appium so I use wd.addElementPromiseChainMethod() to add a custom method. For iOS that just calls the real sendKeys() - on Android it first clicks on the element and then calls ‘adb shell text input’ to send the text to the element. Note that I didn’t do this for speed (I haven’t compared it to sendKeys) - I did it because when testing a React Native app on the Android emulator sendKeys, setText etc. were not reliable enough. It’s likely that they are now (I set this up about a year ago with a much earlier version of Appium).

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Hi Aleksei,
Could you please help out to resolve below

Running ‘C:\Users\cg2\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe -P 5037 -s 0e0919d4e301e977 push C:\Users\jenkins\AppData\Local\Programs\Appium\resources\app\node_modules\appium-android-bootstrap\bootstrap\bin\AppiumBootstrap.jar /data/local/tmp/’
[2018-07-24 09:05:24][ADB] Attempting to kill all uiautomator processes
[2018-07-24 09:05:24][ADB] Getting all processes with uiautomator
[2018-07-24 09:05:24][ADB] Getting connected devices…
[2018-07-24 09:05:25][ADB] 1 device(s) connected
[2018-07-24 09:05:25][ADB] Running ‘C:\Users\cg2\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe -P 5037 -s 0e0919d4e301e977 shell ps’
[2018-07-24 09:05:25][ADB] No uiautomator process found to kill, continuing…
[2018-07-24 09:05:25][UiAutomator] Starting UIAutomator
[2018-07-24 09:05:25][ADB] Creating ADB subprocess with args: ["-P",5037,"-s",“0e0919d4e301e977”,“shell”,“uiautomator”,“runtest”,“AppiumBootstrap.jar”,"-c",“io.appium.android.bootstrap.Bootstrap”,"-e",“pkg”,“com.mdt.hds.consoleUI”,"-e",“disableAndroidWatchers”,false,"-e",“acceptSslCerts”,false]
[2018-07-24 09:05:28][UiAutomator] Moving to state ‘online’
[2018-07-24 09:05:28][AndroidBootstrap] [BOOTSTRAP LOG] [debug] Loading json…
[2018-07-24 09:05:28][AndroidBootstrap] Android bootstrap socket is now connected
[2018-07-24 09:05:28][ADB] Getting connected devices…
[2018-07-24 09:05:28][AndroidBootstrap] [BOOTSTRAP LOG] [debug] Registered crash watchers.
[2018-07-24 09:05:28][AndroidBootstrap] [BOOTSTRAP LOG] [debug] Client connected
[2018-07-24 09:05:28][ADB] 1 device(s) connected
[2018-07-24 09:05:28][ADB] Running ‘C:\Users\cg2\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe -P 5037 -s 0e0919d4e301e977 shell dumpsys window’
[2018-07-24 09:05:28][AndroidDriver] Screen already unlocked, doing nothing
[2018-07-24 09:05:28][ADB] Device API level: 23
[2018-07-24 09:05:28][ADB] Getting connected devices…
[2018-07-24 09:05:28][ADB] 1 device(s) connected
[2018-07-24 09:05:28][ADB] Running ‘C:\Users\cg2\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe -P 5037 -s 0e0919d4e301e977 shell am start -W -n com.mdt.hds.consoleUI/com.mdt.hds.ui.main.HomeScreenActivity -S’
[2018-07-24 09:05:42][Appium] New AndroidDriver session created successfully, session 507d4853-cc1b-4ef4-9f8c-173bf69a291f added to master session list
[2018-07-24 09:05:42][BaseDriver] Event ‘newSessionStarted’ logged at 1532403342432 (09:05:42 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time))
[2018-07-24 09:05:42][MJSONWP] Responding to client with driver.createSession() result: {“platform”:“LINUX”,“webStorageEnabled”:false,“takesScreenshot”:true,“javascriptEnabled”:true,“databaseEnabled”:false,“networkConnectionEnabled”:true,“locationContextEnabled”:false,“warnings”:{},“desired”:{“appPackage”:“com.mdt.hds.consoleUI”,“appActivity”:“com.mdt.hds.ui.main.HomeScreenActivity”,“noReset”:true,“sendKeyStrategy”:“setValue”,“platformVersion”:“6.0.1”,“unicodeKeyboard”:true,“platformName”:“Android”,“deviceName”:“consoleUIBoard”,“resetKeyboard”:false},“appPackage”:“com.mdt.hds.consoleUI”,“appActivity”:“com.mdt.hds.ui.main.HomeScreenActivity”,“noReset”:true,“sendKeyStrategy”:“setValue”,“platformVersion”:“6.0.1”,“unicodeKeyboard”:true,“platformName”:“Android”,“deviceName”:“0e0919d4e301e977”,“resetKeyboard”:false,“deviceUDID”:“0e0919d4e301e977”,“deviceScreenSize”:“1280x800”,“deviceModel”:“CONSOLEUI-MX6DQ”,“deviceManufacturer”:“Freescale”}
[2018-07-24 09:05:42][HTTP] <-- POST /wd/hub/session 200 48434 ms - 932
[2018-07-24 09:05:42][HTTP]
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][HTTP] --> POST /wd/hub/session/507d4853-cc1b-4ef4-9f8c-173bf69a291f/element
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][HTTP] {“using”:“id”,“value”:“com.mdt.hds.consoleUI:id/PatientInfo_ET_PFirstName”}
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][MJSONWP] Calling AppiumDriver.findElement() with args: [“id”,“com.mdt.hds.consoleUI:id/PatientInfo_ET_PFirstName”,“507d4853-cc1b-4ef4-9f8c-173bf69a291f”]
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][BaseDriver] Valid locator strategies for this request: xpath, id, class name, accessibility id, -android uiautomator
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][BaseDriver] Waiting up to 0 ms for condition
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][AndroidBootstrap] Sending command to android: {“cmd”:“action”,“action”:“find”,“params”:{“strategy”:“id”,“selector”:“com.mdt.hds.consoleUI:id/PatientInfo_ET_PFirstName”,“context”:"",“multiple”:false}}
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][AndroidBootstrap] [BOOTSTRAP LOG] [debug] Got data from client: {“cmd”:“action”,“action”:“find”,“params”:{“strategy”:“id”,“selector”:“com.mdt.hds.consoleUI:id/PatientInfo_ET_PFirstName”,“context”:"",“multiple”:false}}
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][AndroidBootstrap] [BOOTSTRAP LOG] [debug] Got command of type ACTION
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][AndroidBootstrap] [BOOTSTRAP LOG] [debug] Got command action: find
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][AndroidBootstrap] [BOOTSTRAP LOG] [debug] Finding ‘com.mdt.hds.consoleUI:id/PatientInfo_ET_PFirstName’ using ‘ID’ with the contextId: ‘’ multiple: false
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][AndroidBootstrap] [BOOTSTRAP LOG] [debug] Using: UiSelector[INSTANCE=0, RESOURCE_ID=com.mdt.hds.consoleUI:id/PatientInfo_ET_PFirstName]
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][AndroidBootstrap] [BOOTSTRAP LOG] [debug] Failed to locate element. Clearing Accessibility cache and retrying.
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][AndroidBootstrap] [BOOTSTRAP LOG] [debug] Finding ‘com.mdt.hds.consoleUI:id/PatientInfo_ET_PFirstName’ using ‘ID’ with the contextId: ‘’ multiple: false
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][AndroidBootstrap] [BOOTSTRAP LOG] [debug] Using: UiSelector[INSTANCE=0, RESOURCE_ID=com.mdt.hds.consoleUI:id/PatientInfo_ET_PFirstName]
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][AndroidBootstrap] [BOOTSTRAP LOG] [debug] Returning result: {“status”:7,“value”:“No element found”}
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][AndroidBootstrap] Received command result from bootstrap
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][MJSONWP] Matched JSONWP error code 7 to NoSuchElementError
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][HTTP] <-- POST /wd/hub/session/507d4853-cc1b-4ef4-9f8c-173bf69a291f/element 500 803 ms - 164
[2018-07-24 09:06:01][HTTP]
[2018-07-24 09:06:02][HTTP] --> DELETE /wd/hub/session/507d4853-cc1b-4ef4-9f8c-173bf69a291f
[2018-07-24 09:06:02][HTTP] {}
[2018-07-24 09:06:02][MJSONWP] Calling AppiumDriver.deleteSession() with args: [“507d4853-cc1b-4ef4-9f8c-173bf69a291f”]
[2018-07-24 09:06:02][BaseDriver] Event ‘quitSessionRequested’ logged at 1532403361997 (09:06:01 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time))
[2018-07-24 09:06:02][Appium] Removing session 507d4853-cc1b-4ef4-9f8c-173bf69a291f from our master session list
[2018-07-24 09:06:02][AndroidDriver] Shutting down Android driver
[2018-07-24 09:06:02][ADB] Getting connected devices…
[2018-07-24 09:06:02][ADB] 1 device(s) connected
[2018-07-24 09:06:02][ADB] Running ‘C:\Users\cg2\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe -P 5037 -s 0e0919d4e301e977 shell am force-stop com.mdt.hds.consoleUI’
[2018-07-24 09:06:10][ADB] Pressing the HOME button
[2018-07-24 09:06:10][ADB] Getting connected devices…
[2018-07-24 09:06:10][ADB] 1 device(s) connected
[2018-07-24 09:06:10][ADB] Running ‘C:\Users\cg2\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe -P 5037 -s 0e0919d4e301e977 shell input keyevent 3’
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][AndroidBootstrap] Sending command to android: {“cmd”:“shutdown”}
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][AndroidBootstrap] Received command result from bootstrap
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][UiAutomator] Shutting down UiAutomator
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][UiAutomator] Moving to state ‘stopping’
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][AndroidBootstrap] [BOOTSTRAP LOG] [debug] Got data from client: {“cmd”:“shutdown”}
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][AndroidBootstrap] [BOOTSTRAP LOG] [debug] Got command of type SHUTDOWN
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][AndroidBootstrap] [BOOTSTRAP LOG] [debug] Returning result: {“status”:0,“value”:“OK, shutting down”}
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][UiAutomator] UiAutomator shut down normally
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][UiAutomator] Moving to state ‘stopped’
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][ADB] Attempting to kill all uiautomator processes
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][ADB] Getting all processes with uiautomator
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][ADB] Getting connected devices…
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][ADB] 1 device(s) connected
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][ADB] Running ‘C:\Users\cg2\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe -P 5037 -s 0e0919d4e301e977 shell ps’
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][ADB] No uiautomator process found to kill, continuing…
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][UiAutomator] Moving to state ‘stopped’
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][Logcat] Stopping logcat capture
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][ADB] Getting connected devices…
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][ADB] 1 device(s) connected
[2018-07-24 09:06:13][ADB] Running ‘C:\Users\cg2\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools\adb.exe -P 5037 -s 0e0919d4e301e977 shell am force-stop io.appium.unlock’
[2018-07-24 09:06:16][AndroidDriver] Not cleaning generated files. Add clearSystemFiles capability if wanted.
[2018-07-24 09:06:16][BaseDriver] Event ‘quitSessionFinished’ logged at 1532403376545 (09:06:16 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time))
[2018-07-24 09:06:16][MJSONWP] Received response: null
[2018-07-24 09:06:16][MJSONWP] But deleting session, so not returning
[2018-07-24 09:06:16][MJSONWP] Responding to client with driver.deleteSession() result: null
[2018-07-24 09:06:16][HTTP] <-- DELETE /wd/hub/session/507d4853-cc1b-4ef4-9f8c-173bf69a291f 200 14553 ms - 76
[2018-07-24 09:06:16][HTTP]

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After executing few scripts, execution is stopping

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I was going to suggest an alternative method for “Enter Text without SendKeys”… .You could try injecting some JavaScript or jQuery to get the job done:

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) appDriver;
js.executeScript(“$(‘#fooElement’).val(‘some text’)”);

Good Luck!