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Testing Tricks #2: Finding UI Views

December 7, 2015 by Annyce Davis 2 Comments

When you’re writing Espresso tests for your Android applications, you will often need to reference the resource id of a particular view in order to make your assertions. Instead of digging through code you can take advantage of the UIAutomatorViewer tool. It’s very simple to use and helps you to visualize the hierarchy of the views in your application. 


Here it is in action:

Espresso Test

@Test
public void clickOnDetailItemShouldDisplayPlayer() {
    onView(withId(R.id.container_list)).check(matches(isDisplayed()));
    onView(withId(R.id.browse_headers))
        .perform(pressKey(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_RIGHT));

    onView(allOf(isDescendantOfA(
                     withRecyclerView(R.id.row_content).atPosition(0)),
           withId(R.id.info_field)))
              .perform(pressKey(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_CENTER));

    onView(withId(R.id.wapo_player_view))
        .check(matches(isDisplayed()));
}
 
This test is for an AndroidTV application. It makes sure that the D-Pad navigation from the main header to the nested RecyclerView is functioning as expected. All of the ids for the views were found using uiautomatorviewer.


Hope you found this useful, until next time!

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