Android - sendKeys performs long-press somehow

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I have a username textfield on an Android app. If a user long-presses on the textfield, a menu pops up. If a user lightly taps inside the textfield, then the user can enter the username.

If I use sendKeys, it somehow is interpreted as long-press which I do NOT want. How do I avoid triggering long-pressing from sendKeys?

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Hi @Mayu_Kataoka,

Just perform click on before you enter sendKeys in Text Field.
element.click();
element.clear(); //(This statement is not mandatory)
element.sendKeys(“text”);

have a try, will get resolved.

Thanks,
Bhaskar.

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Followed the steps. Still doing long-press instead.

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Interesting use case, @isaac is there a way to simulate that?

Maybe the app would need to be modified so that once the user has started typing the menu does not show anymore.

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Worked around this sendKeys problem by:

emailField.click();
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/Users/username/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb -s emulator-5554 shell input text [email protected]");

Hope this helps if anyone else is having the same issue…

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Hi All

We ran into a similar issue with one of the PID (passcode) fields in our mobile app and we were able to sort that with a click and using the pressKeyCode method… Hope it helps others too :slight_smile:

driver.findElement(By.id("au.org.silverchain.comcare:id/pinEntry")).click( );

driver.pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.KEYCODE_7 );