Problem after hiding the keyboard - Android physical device

Issues/Bugs
1

Hello,

hopefully someone can help with this problem. Sometimes the driver.hideKeyboard method crashes, I just thought: “ I could catch the exception and I thought I would be fine” (the keyboard is actually dismissed despite the crash).

Instead in some cases (difficult for me to understand when, it seems pretty random) when I get the exception
the keyboard is indeed hidden, but tapping on a button after that fails (“cannot find the element”).
Seems like the driver is trying to click the button on a “higher” coordinate, missing it, as if it thought the keyboard is still shown.

So I tried something like this:

try {
driver.hideKeyboard();
} catch (WebDriverException e) {
log("\n***** Could not hide the keyboard *****\n%s\n\n", e.getMessage());
// Wait for 2 second and force a screen refresh
waitFor(2);
driver.getPageSource(); //force recalculation of the position of the elements in the view?
}

but still no luck. Any suggestion would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Manuele

2

You should set your capabilities with this and will stop the keyboard from showing up on your tests.

	"unicodeKeyboard": "true"
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3

That solved our problem, thank you so much, really appreciate that.

Manuele

4

After doing “unicodeKeyboard”: “true” the total keyboard is hided but I am not able to even manually get the keyboard. How can I revertback so that I can get the manual keyboard in my realdevice.

5

you have to go to the keyboard option in your device and deselect Appium keyboard

6

@alangithubtrader Thanks for your reply.

But one small doubt. When I use this way to hidekeyobard I am not able to perform the action like driver.navigate().back(). Is it known issue or another way to work around.