How to click on home back and recent button in android?

sudhanvam 2015-03-13 04:31:39 UTC #1

please help me to click on these buttons..

thanks in advance.

regards,
Sudhanva.M

willosser 2015-03-13 14:22:09 UTC #2

You can simulate pressing these keys using the appium driver's press_keycode method, which calls adb's "input keyevent", shown here in Ruby

appium_driver.driver.press_keycode <keycode>

Back is 4
Menu is 82
Recent Apps is 187 (APP_SWITCH)

You can find the full list of keycodes here:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html

pendu_adi 2016-04-21 13:05:02 UTC #3

Hi Can you help with the above code

appium_driver.driver.press_keycode

in Java

willosser 2016-04-21 15:02:41 UTC #4

appium_driver.driver.pressKeyCode

Aleksei 2016-04-21 15:15:11 UTC #5

((AndroidDriver) driver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.BACK);
((AndroidDriver) driver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.HOME);

pendu_adi 2016-04-22 05:41:13 UTC #6

the driver which i am using is of AndroidDriver so i guess there is no need to type cast that.
Any which ways the ide is not prompting me with pressKeyCode method

pendu_adi 2016-04-22 06:39:56 UTC #7

I got the solution for the same driver.sendKeyEvent(keycode) for menu button the key code is 82

Aleksei 2016-04-22 06:57:18 UTC #8

the same is:

((AndroidDriver) driver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.KEYCODE_MENU);

Aleksei 2016-04-22 07:19:17 UTC #9

your java-client is old version

Suraj786 2016-08-26 12:12:05 UTC #10

How to press the same in C#.. I tried but not able to find any near function to above solutions!!!! Help will be appreciated.

willosser 2016-08-26 16:09:56 UTC #11

github.com

appium/appium-dotnet-driver/blob/a903187f09ae0151fafe4f217b3c6ca4e3441604/appium-dotnet-driver/Appium/Android/Interfaces/ISendsKeyEvents.cs

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namespace OpenQA.Selenium.Appium.Android.Interfaces
{
    public interface ISendsKeyEvents
    {

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shijukonline 2016-10-10 23:50:55 UTC #12

Python code for hardware back button
driver.press_keycode(4)

crujzo 2016-10-25 06:59:25 UTC #13

driver.navigate().back(); works perfectly for me

ranjith_hs 2017-03-02 06:16:46 UTC #14

This is fine to navigate back..but if i want to click on CAMERA button
pressKeyCode is not working for me even after using java client 5.0
please let me know if someone has implemented the same.

crujzo 2017-03-07 03:25:13 UTC #15

Hello @ranjith_hs,
Which Event Number you are using?

ranjith_hs 2017-03-07 06:28:02 UTC #16

I was using appium java client 3.4.1 with SendKeyEvent

now that i am not able to use PressKeyCode with 3.4.1

viswesvar 2017-12-29 16:10:34 UTC #17

Hi willosser,
I’m new to Appium, I have the same question how to use the return button in Ruby, I already tried driver.sendKeyEvent(4) but it gives me error. can you help me with this

undefined local variable or method `appium_driver’

willosser 2018-01-29 17:51:54 UTC #18

Hi Viswesvar,

You’ll have to provide a bit more information, such as your code.

I’m guessing that you expect the object appium_driver to be your appium driver. Where did you set that?

Prarna 2018-05-28 06:41:32 UTC #19

I am using the above code but its not working for me.

suban 2018-07-13 05:07:03 UTC #20

since pressKeyCode has been depreciated you can use

    import io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver;
    import io.appium.java_client.MobileElement;
    import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver;
    import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
    import io.appium.java_client.android.nativekey.AndroidKey;
    import io.appium.java_client.android.nativekey.KeyEvent;
   
     //initialize AppiumDriver and DesiredCapabilities

     ((AndroidDriver<MobileElement>) driver).pressKey(new KeyEvent(AndroidKey.HOME));
     ((AndroidDriver<MobileElement>) driver).pressKey(new KeyEvent(AndroidKey.APP_SWITCH));