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mbasit
Sep '17

I am a beginner in Appium automation. The application I am testing, have this scenario where I need to tap on Search button from the native keyboard. I have tried with pressKeyCode method but get this error The method pressKeyCode(int) is undefined for the type WebElement

I am using the following Appium 1.4.16.1 with Java client 5.0.0-BETA8 Selenium 3.4.0

I don’t know what I am doing wrong. I have tried with earlier java client for appium as well but nothing have worked so far. Also, if there is a work around other than the pressKeyCode to do this?

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mbasit
Sep '17

This is the excerpt from my test code
driver.findElement(By.name(“Search Job Guides”)).sendKeys(“guide”);
driver.pressKeyCode(66);

I am now updating appium. Lets see if that works.

Aleksei
Sep '17

@mbasit how about:

 ((AndroidDriver) driver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.KEYCODE_SEARCH); //int KEYCODE_SEARCH = 84;
mbasit
Sep '17

I have tried both
Updated appium version to 1.6.5
Also tried with this piece of code, still getting the same error “The method pressKeyCode(int) is undefined for the type AndroidDriver”

mbasit
Sep '17

Sorry I meant still getting the same undefined method error.

mbasit
Sep '17

Sure

Btw, I have tried with both AndroidDriver and WebDriver. Got the same error for both.

mbasit
Sep '17

Hey,

Yes the code is working now. Thanks a ton for that but I am still unable to tap on the Search key. I have tried to tap on other keys and it works perfectly fine but it does not tap on the search key.

Aleksei
Sep '17

@mbasit tried and it was worked below with mine app:

        ((AndroidDriver) driver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.ENTER);
19 days later
Joseph_Baylon
Oct '17
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@Aleksei @mbasit

I’m having the same problem. The code below does not seem to do anything against genymotion with soft keyboard enabled.

androidDriver.pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.KEYCODE_SEARCH);

It would be great if someone who has workaround would share their solution.

7 months later
joshidipakkumar
May '18

I also faced same issue, so as a solution i used below code:

TouchAction touchAction=new TouchAction(driver);
touchAction.tap(xPosition, yPosition).perform();

tap at paritcular coordinates. Using Appium inspector you can find the coordinates.

6 months later
mykola-mokhnach
Nov '18
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TanyaMTL
Jan '19

I have the same issue enter or search keys do not work on appium (Appium latest version, using real device)
driver.pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.KEYCODE_ENTER);
I also tried keycode=66 that does not work either .

Any ideas? Thanks