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")));
}

Answer 2

You can bypass the problem by calling setText on the EditText.

   final EditText titleInput = (EditText) activity.findViewById(R.id.titleInput);
   getInstrumentation().runOnMainSync(new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            titleInput.setText("Engineer");
        }
    });

Answer 3

You can include it with in the code like this,

onView(withId(R.id.titleInput))
     .perform(click(), replaceText("Engineer"), closeSoftKeyboard());

Answer 4

for me I was annotated my test method with @UiThreadTest. I removed that and it solved.