Unable to perform a search operation using the device soft keyboard search icon.

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hi Renas,

We are testing an Hybrid application. 
The scenario is we have a Native text box (which is AutoCompleteTextView) where 
in we send the keyword to search along with this there is a cancel button .

As soon as there is focus on the text box the device soft keyboard pops up.
We use this.solo.enterText(searchBarAutoCompleteTextBox, keyword); to send in 
the keyword
And now we want to click the search icon of the device soft keyboard , so we 
used the following different methods:
1.this.solo.sendKey(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_SEARCH);
2.this.solo.sendKey(EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_SEARCH);
3.this.solo.sendKey(Keyboard.KEYCODE_DONE);
4.this.solo.sendKey(Keyboard.KEYCODE_ENTER);
5.this.solo.sendKey(Solo.ENTER);

but none of the above methods helped us.

Can you please provide us your inputs on how we can go about it. This is a 
major blocker for us.

Would appreciate if we get a resolution for this very soon.

Thanks,
Zaid 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Zaid.I.M...@gmail.com on 28 Jan 2014 at 3:09

[GoogleCodeExporter]

The soft keyboard is not part of the app you're testing and therefore you are 
not allowed to interact with it. This is a limitation in the Android platform. 
You could try if solo. pressSoftKeyboardNextButton() will work for you.  

Original comment by renasr...@gmail.com on 29 Jan 2014 at 5:06

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[GoogleCodeExporter]

Well thanks for the above comments. solo.pressSoftKeyboardNextButton() did not 
work out. But this method gave us the clue on how we can press the search icon. 
What we did is:
we created an object of AutoCompleteTextView by getting its id in 
searchBarAutoCompleteTextBox i.e.,
AutoCompleteTextView searchBarAutoCompleteTextBox = 
this.solo.getView(package.id.ID_OF_THE_TEXTBOX);
AutoCompleteTextView.onEditorAction(EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_SEARCH); // this line 
of code could perform a search operation for us.

Thanks,
Zaid 

Original comment by Zaid.I.M...@gmail.com on 29 Jan 2014 at 11:18

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Great to hear. Thanks for the feedback. We'll see if we can add a method like 
this in the next release. 

Original comment by renasr...@gmail.com on 29 Jan 2014 at 11:21

[GoogleCodeExporter]

My pleasure . And great thanks to you, Renas. 

Original comment by Zaid.I.M...@gmail.com on 29 Jan 2014 at 11:37