How to click on home back and recent button in android?

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please help me to click on these buttons…

thanks in advance.

regards,
Sudhanva.M

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You can simulate pressing these keys using the appium driver’s press_keycode method, which calls adb’s “input keyevent”, shown here in Ruby

appium_driver.driver.press_keycode <keycode>

Back is 4
Menu is 82
Recent Apps is 187 (APP_SWITCH)

You can find the full list of keycodes here:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html

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Hi Can you help with the above code

appium_driver.driver.press_keycode

in Java

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appium_driver.driver.pressKeyCode

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((AndroidDriver) driver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.BACK);
((AndroidDriver) driver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.HOME);
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the driver which i am using is of AndroidDriver so i guess there is no need to type cast that.
Any which ways the ide is not prompting me with pressKeyCode method :sweat:

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I got the solution for the same driver.sendKeyEvent(keycode) for menu button the key code is 82 :smiley:

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the same is:

((AndroidDriver) driver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.KEYCODE_MENU);
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your java-client is old version :slight_smile:

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How to press the same in C#… I tried but not able to find any near function to above solutions!!! Help will be appreciated.

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Python code for hardware back button
driver.press_keycode(4)

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driver.navigate().back(); works perfectly for me

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This is fine to navigate back…but if i want to click on CAMERA button
pressKeyCode is not working for me even after using java client 5.0
please let me know if someone has implemented the same.

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Hello @ranjith_hs,
Which Event Number you are using?

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I was using appium java client 3.4.1 with SendKeyEvent

now that i am not able to use PressKeyCode with 3.4.1

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Hi willosser,
I’m new to Appium, I have the same question how to use the return button in Ruby, I already tried driver.sendKeyEvent(4) but it gives me error. can you help me with this

undefined local variable or method `appium_driver’

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Hi Viswesvar,

You’ll have to provide a bit more information, such as your code.

I’m guessing that you expect the object appium_driver to be your appium driver. Where did you set that?

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I am using the above code but its not working for me.

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since pressKeyCode has been depreciated you can use

    import io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver;
    import io.appium.java_client.MobileElement;
    import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver;
    import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
    import io.appium.java_client.android.nativekey.AndroidKey;
    import io.appium.java_client.android.nativekey.KeyEvent;
   
     //initialize AppiumDriver and DesiredCapabilities

     ((AndroidDriver<MobileElement>) driver).pressKey(new KeyEvent(AndroidKey.HOME));
     ((AndroidDriver<MobileElement>) driver).pressKey(new KeyEvent(AndroidKey.APP_SWITCH));
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