Sendkeys not working properly

Issues/Bugs
1

Hi all,

I’m doing some automated tests on Android using appium (chrome browser) and i’ve encounter an issue while sending keys to a text box.
Sometimes the string is inputted to the box in a mixed order, for example:
test@some,domain.com --> test@some,domain.moc
Did anyone saw this behavior?
My environment is:
Appium 1.3.7
Mac OS X 10.10.2
Thanks in advance!!

2

Hi Ronen,

I met this issue right now on Android 6.0.1, and it always blocks my test case for assertions failed…
Did you solve this now ? …

3

Hi,

I haven’t encountered it lately.
We solved it by adding a check after the send keys and resend them if there was an error.
We are now using the latest release of appium but the android version is 5.1.1.

4

With appium 1.5.x it never failed for me.

Anyway, if you want you may use the following adb command directly:

adb shell input text your%stext%sin%shere

Note: The %s in previous command send space to textfield

5

Hi Ronen,

Thanks for your reply, I used Android 5.0 and installed a google input method , still got same issue…I also tried adb shell input, some times, still got wrong order…
, btw, how do you check if the send key is correct, use findelement, then gettext something like that?..

6

Hi Cardoso,

Thanks, I tried this before, still got wrong order of input character…just wondering if there’s some settings to control the speed of input…

7

Hi @fionazj,

for ios we have a capability to delay input of keys:

String INTER_KEY_DELAY = "interKeyDelay";

But there is no capability similar for android.

I guess you can try to do a method. I tried with delay above 250ms and it works properly. If I give less delay, some keys will be written before others :slight_smile:

public void mySendText(String text, int delay) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
    String ADB_SEND_TEXT = "adb shell input text %s";

    for (char ch: text.toCharArray()) {
        Runtime.getRuntime().exec((String.format(ADB_SEND_TEXT,ch)));
        Thread.sleep(delay);
    }
}
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8

Hi Cardoso,

Thanks for your suggestion, I do think it’s a good way to slow down the speed of sendkey. I will try it in the code later :slight_smile:

9

Hi fionazj,
Does this method , which is mentioned by Cardoso, works for you on Android platform? As I am also facing the same issue with Android version 6.

10

Hi
It works for me now you could have a try for this:grin:

11

Hi All,

I also facing same issue for sendkeys for Android OS version 7.0 and above.
Sendkeys() method is stop support for OTP text field.
I have used following solution:

otpElement.click();
((AndroidDriver)driver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.KEYCODE_1);
((AndroidDriver)driver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.KEYCODE_3);
((AndroidDriver)driver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.KEYCODE_4);
((AndroidDriver)driver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.KEYCODE_5);
((AndroidDriver)driver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.KEYCODE_8);
((AndroidDriver)driver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.KEYCODE_6);

Thanks