How to press the keys in mobile keyboard

Libraries Appium
1

Hi, I’m doing mobile automation with robot framework & Appium. I want to enter the texts & numbers in my application by pressing the mobile keyboard (Screenshot_01).

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This is what I have so far,

`*** Settings ***

Library AppiumLibrary
Resource /some/path/Variables.robot

*** Test Cases ***

TC_01_Login with valid details
Open Application http://localhost:4723/wd/hub platformName=Android deviceName=emulator-5554 app=C:/APK/APK_File_Name.apk automationName=Uiautomator2
sleep 10s

# Skip Button
click element   //android.widget.TextView[@text="Skip"]
sleep  5s

# Enter the Name
input text      ${Locator_Name}     xxxxx
sleep  5s
# Continue Button
click element   ${Continue_Button}
sleep  10s

# Enter the Mobile Number
click element   ${Locator_Mobile}
sleep  25s

#############################
#Try 1

# Click No. 0 from the mobile keyboard
click element    //android.widget.LinearLayout[@text="0"]
sleep  1s

#############################
#Try 2

# Click No. 0 from the mobile keyboard
PRESS KEYCODE     None    0
sleep  2s

#############################

# Next Button
click element    ${Next_Button}`

Here, First I tried as “Try 1”, and get the below error;
ValueError: Element locator ‘//android.widget.LinearLayout[@text=“0”]’ did not match any elements.

Then I deleted the first method and tried as “Try 2”. But it closed the application so that I couldn’t complete the scenario.

Please help to solve this issue. Any guidance and advice will be greatly appreciated!

2

Have you know the answer yet? Would you mind to let me know How to press the enter keys in mobile keyboard, please.

3

@KonraweePra, In this application, here we used the default keyboard. So, I couldn’t press the keys using the “Click Element” and “Press Keycode” keywords. But I was able to do it by clicking the coordinates.
Here is a sample example, maybe it will be helpful to you.

## Enter the keys
# Click on the space button
AppiumLibrary.click element at coordinates    748    2603
sleep  2s
# Click on the letter "g"
AppiumLibrary.click element at coordinates    718    2262
sleep  2s

# Press No. 0
AppiumLibrary.click element at coordinates    532    2599
sleep  1s
# Press No. 7
AppiumLibrary.click element at coordinates    186    2465
sleep  1s
4

Sounds like your fairly happy with the approach you fell on which is great :slight_smile: Interestingly… did you by chance try one of the Wait Until keywords, over a sleep.

So for example as an approach:
click of input element > wait until element is visible (being the keyboard container for example) > then interact with the buttons > then click of done > wait until page doesn’t not contain element (being the keyboard)

I’d imagine you had used the UIAutomationViewer to find you’re locators for the elements?

Happy to help with a more robust approach, as those coordinates might cause problems across different devices or different orientation.

5

Hello daryl, may I know how do managed to make the press keycode works? I tried to find some source but I can’t find any working examples.