How to know if android virtual keyboard is open

Ericzered · September 15, 2014, 3:30pm

Hello guys,
I’m working in Ruby.
My question is simple, how do you if the android virtual keyboard is open when we are on an app ?
Because sometimes in my app the virtual keyboard is automatically open and I have to press back. And sometimes no…
So I’m looking for a simple “if condition” to know if I have to press back or not in my auto test.
Thanks !

bootstraponline · September 16, 2014, 4:16am

Use the hide_keyboard method.

Ericzered · September 16, 2014, 7:29am

Thanks for the answer but I have a big problem. It’s pretty much my main and only problem: I don’t know how to use the appium_lib function, they are not recognized when I compil.
I don’t know how to declare my driver so I can use them. I have the gem installed but my code is only working when 'm using Selenium and Watir.
Something like Appium::Browser or else are not working.
Can you give me just one exemple of project’s begin with declaration using appium_lib ? It’s like weeks I’m stuck.
Thanks a lot.
My code:

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘watir-webdriver’
require ‘rspec’
require ‘page-object’
require ‘page-object/page_factory’
require ‘require_relative’
require ‘yaml’
require ‘selenium-webdriver’
require ‘appium_lib’
capabilities =
{
‘appPackage’=> ‘com.myapp.demo’,
‘appActivity’=> ‘.MainActivity’,
‘platformName’ => ‘Android’,
‘deviceName’ => ‘Galaxy S4’,
}
server_url = ‘http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub’
@driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:remote, desired_capabilities: capabilities, url: server_url)
@browser = Watir::Browser.new @driver
@browser.driver.manage.timeouts.implicit_wait = 30
@driver.find_element(:id, “com.myapp.demo:id/fbutton2”).click()

—> I can’t use appium_lib function with that.

bootstraponline · September 16, 2014, 1:14pm

Selenium::WebDriver is the problem. You need to create an appium driver. See the Ruby examples.

Ericzered · September 16, 2014, 3:26pm

Thanks a lot, it’s ok !!
I finally get it, now I put @driver = Appium::Driver.new(capabilities).start_driver and I can use Appium_lib functions.
hide_keyboard is working great but do you know how to know if the keyboard is open or not ? Because if I run hide_keyboard when it’s not open, I have an error.
Thanks again !

Ericzered · September 16, 2014, 3:59pm

I find a way: I just catch the exception like this

begin @driver.hide_keyboard
rescue => e
end

and no problem.
Thanks again for your help!

Krrish · October 8, 2014, 8:55am

Hi,
I’m also working in Ruby.I have met with some problem in accessing the Appium methods.Can you share your env.rb file??
Thanks in advance

Ericzered · October 8, 2014, 11:41am

Hello,
Here you can find a simple example of a entire script which using appium_lib gem

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘rspec’
require ‘watir-webdriver’
require ‘appium_lib’

capabilities = {
caps: {
‘browserName’ => ‘Chrome’,
‘platformName’ => ‘Android’,
‘deviceName’ => ‘Android’
},
appium_lib: {
sauce_username: nil, # don’t run on Sauce
sauce_access_key: nil
}
}
@driver_appium = Appium::Driver.new(capabilities)
@driver = @driver_appium.start_driver
@browser = Watir::Browser.new @driver
@browser.driver.manage.timeouts.implicit_wait = 15

With that, you can use @driver or @driver_appium to use Appium methods (I don’t know exactly what to use and when because I’m new too but I know this start code is a good start).

bootstraponline · October 9, 2014, 2:34am

I have an example env.rb in the sample code repo for Ruby.

github.com

appium-boneyard/sample-code/blob/master/sample-code/examples/ruby/cucumber_android/features/support/env.rb

# This file provides setup and common functionality across all features.  It's
# included first before every test run, and the methods provided here can be 
# used in any of the step definitions used in a test.  This is a great place to
# put shared data like the location of your app, the capabilities you want to
# test with, and the setup of selenium.

require 'rspec/expectations'
require 'appium_lib'
require 'cucumber/ast'

# Create a custom World class so we don't pollute `Object` with Appium methods
class AppiumWorld
end

# Load the desired configuration from appium.txt, create a driver then
# Add the methods to the world
caps = Appium.load_appium_txt file: File.expand_path('./', __FILE__), verbose: true
Appium::Driver.new(caps)
Appium.promote_appium_methods AppiumWorld

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VikramVI · July 2, 2015, 8:12pm

@Ericzered @bootstraponline

hide_keyboard is not waiting for android keyboard any more with latest appium server ?

can you please clarify is something changed wrt this method ?

Thanks,
Vikram