Why does _EditText_.send_keys("548") trigger cut/copy/paste popup menu?

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For default android calculator, with Python client, below code trigger paste popup menu 3 times, but no text in the EditText?

    el = driver.find_elements_by_class_name('android.widget.EditText')
    el.click()
    el.send_keys("548")

just like long press.

on Mac 10.10,
Android 4.4.2
Appium 1.4.1,
Appium-Python-Client (0.14)
selenium (2.45.0)

Any clues?

2

This sounds like a bug, the android input text logic is actually pretty complex.

3

but, but, but it’s a fundamental function. I hope it’s my wrong really.
:frowning:

4

Yes this sounds like bug with Java code as well, I found similar issue. However now it’s working correctly without any modification.

5

That’s weird.
Maybe some changes on android phone or some configuration changes?

6

I’m running into this with iOS 8.4 when using send_keys to send unicode with python 2.7’s u"unicode text" strings. Investigating for a workaround …

7

I suspect instead of a per-character input, it’s copying the string in, which brings up the context menu by accident. It looks like it’s possible to do a workaround where you just click the appium object element (in my case a UIASearchBar) to dismiss the menu.