Instrumentation test for Android - How to receive new Activity after orientation change?

Question

I\'m trying to test, if newly created Activity (after orientation change) is properly reinitialized. The code below shows that activity returned from getActivity() is t

Answer 1

Ok, I think I finally managed to solve it - with robotium framework. I'm attaching the solution in case someone had the same problem.

Test:

public class MyActivityTest extends ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2{

private static final String TAG = "RAMPS";
private MyActivity mActivity;
private Solo mSolo;

public MyActivityTest() {
    super("com.ramps", MyActivity.class);

}

@Override
protected void setUp() throws Exception {
    super.setUp();
    mActivity = getActivity();
    mSolo = new Solo(getInstrumentation(), getActivity());
    Log.v(TAG, "setUp; activity=" + mActivity);
}

public void testOrienationChange(){     
    mSolo.setActivityOrientation(Solo.LANDSCAPE);
    getInstrumentation().waitForIdleSync();
    MyActivity newActivity = getActivity(); //should be new, but it's not
    Activity newActivity2 = mSolo.getCurrentActivity(); //this will return new activity
    Log.v(TAG, "testOrienationChange; activity=" + newActivity);
    Log.v(TAG, "testOrienationChange; activity2=" + newActivity2);
}   

}

And log messages - for confirmation:

06-11 18:47:02.631: V/RAMPS(716): onCreate; activity=MyActivity@44c326a8
06-11 18:47:03.061: V/RAMPS(716): setUp; activity=MyActivity@44c326a8
06-11 18:47:03.781: V/RAMPS(716): onCreate; activity=MyActivity@44c481e0
06-11 18:47:04.482: V/RAMPS(716): testOrienationChange; activity=MyActivity@44c326a8
06-11 18:47:04.482: V/RAMPS(716): testOrienationChange; activity2=MyActivity@44c481e0

As you can see, activity returned from mSolo.getCurrentActivity() is the same that was created after orientation change. I really recommend Robotium - another great piece of code from Jayway!