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Text Entry
Simulating Text Entry into Views
A common task for test is to enter text into views. UITest provides two API's to address this
need:
IApp.EnterText
IApp.ClearText
Each of these will be discussed in more details below.
Entering Text
The IApp.EnterText method allows a test to enter text into a view. The behaviour of this
method is slightly different between iOS and Android:
iOS – UITest will display the soft keyboard, and then simulate presses on the
keyboard.
Android – UITest does directly use the soft keyboard. Instead, the Xamarin Test
Cloud Agent transparently injects itself between the soft keyboard and the application
and simulates key presses.
The following snippet shows is an example of entering text:
app.EnterText(c=>c.Marked("creditCardTextField"), new string('9',
15));
Disable the Hardware Keyboard
IApp.EnterText will fail if the iOS simulator is configured to use the hardware keyboard.
Before running your UITests locally, ensure that the simulator is configured to use the soft
keyboard.
Clearing Text
The IApp.ClearText method will clear the text from the view, for example:
app.ClearText(c=>c.Marked("creditCardTextField"));