Espresso - typeText not working

Question

I\'m trying to type some text inside an EditText:

    public void testSearch() {
          onView(withId(R.id.titleInput)).perform(typeText(\"Engineer\"));
          


        

Answer 1

Had the same issue using Espresso 2. As a workaround I'm using replaceText instead of typeText.

public void testSearch() {
      onView(withId(R.id.titleInput)).perform(click(), replaceText("Engineer"));
      onView(withId(R.id.titleInput)).check(matches(withText("Engineer")));
}