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Support unicode input #146

Open dmitry-zaitsev opened 1 year ago

dmitry-zaitsev commented 1 year ago

At the moment Maestro does not allow to input unicode characters, so commands like this one won't work:

- inputText: Wünderbar

dmitry-zaitsev commented 1 year ago

On iOS, the issue is in the fact that idb inputs text by sending key events to the device, instead of passing the text as a whole.

dmitry-zaitsev commented 1 year ago

On Android, the issue is in the fact that adb shell input text {text} does not work with unicode.

We have tried to solve the problem in following ways:

Use UiAutomator directly. This allows for input of unicode, but adds a weird limitation - it is not possible to append text input to a field due to the fact that if a field has a hint, it will be counted as a text.
Use ADBKeyboard. While it looks promising, it also requires user to enable the keyboard in Android settings. We would like to keep Maestro configuration as simple as possible, so this is a no-go.

mmeven commented 1 year ago

Hi 👋 Any update on the subject ? The iOS issue makes it impossible to run tests when using any non-QWERTY keyboard layout.

Thank you for your time

langtind commented 1 year ago

Related iOS issue: The input don't handle different keyboard layout. I do use QWERTY, but with Norwegian layout. See image, _ and ? are swapped

Text editor vs actual simulator input:

edit: By reading #107 I see that this is already mentioned by others.

marnoux-luna commented 1 year ago

Hi @dmitry-zaitsev,

Do you have any update on this issue? Or any workaround other that switching the mac keyboard to QWERTY?

Thanks 🙏

Martin

dmitry-zaitsev commented 1 year ago

Unicode is now supported on iOS. Android is still work in progress

dragonfire1119 commented 1 year ago

Unicode is now supported on iOS. Android is still work in progress

I have yet to get Maestro to type out a full email address. Are you sure it's fixed?

openerserver commented 1 year ago

Hi， When will Unicode be supported on Android? Is it already in the plans?

Thanks.

ChristianSteffensen commented 1 year ago

I'm interested to know the status of this too. Is there a way to interact with the keyboard itself as a workaround?

dragonfire1119 commented 1 year ago

I'm interested to know the status of this too. Is there a way to interact with the keyboard itself as a workaround?

I had to just go back to using https://wix.github.io/Detox/ :(

It skips letters when you type, which throws off the whole test.

NehaKharbanda99 commented 7 months ago

i am interested to know the status of this also - unicode suppprt for android. struggling for this.

aliaamonier commented 6 months ago

Team , is there any update for the "Unicode character" for Android. This will help alot.

ignatovSA commented 6 months ago

Use UiAutomator directly. This allows for input of unicode, but adds a weird limitation - it is not possible to append text input to a field due to the fact that if a field has a hint, it will be counted as a text.

Probably, this limitation is not as bad as complete absence of Unicode

Do you have any plans on supporting android unicode? Is it possible to move forward with UiAutomator option?

art-ylem commented 3 months ago

Any updates for Android? @dmitry-zaitsev