Android App PressBackKey has no effect

[piotrn]

Hi

I cannot get any effect using the PressBackKey while testing an Android app. There is no effect for the PressKeyBack action.

Is this a known problem? Has anybody got this working on a real mobile device?

The app is deployed in an Android Emulator (adt-bundle-windows-x86-20130729, AVD_for_Nexus_S_by_Google).
The provided (IronPython) code example is using the Android APIDemos app.
Note that the same logic in C# has the same problem...

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import clr
clr.AddReference('Ranorex.Core')
clr.AddReference('Ranorex.Plugin.Mobile')
import time
from Ranorex.Core import RxPath
from Ranorex import MobileApp, AndroidApp, Text, Host

mobile_device = 'AA'
mobile_app = 'com.example.android.apis'
mobile_app_id = "/mobileapp[@title='com.example.android.apis']"
find_normal_delay = 30000 

Host.Local.RunMobileApp(mobile_device, mobile_app)
app = Host.Local.Find[MobileApp](RxPath(mobile_app_id), find_normal_delay)[0]
assert(app.Valid)

choice_id = "./form[@title='ApiDemos']/container/list/text[@caption='App']"
list_choice = app.Find[Text](RxPath(choice_id), find_normal_delay)[0]
assert(list_choice.Valid)
list_choice.Click()

time.sleep(10) # allow for the app to update

AndroidApp(app.Element).PressBackKey()

time.sleep(10) # allow for the app to update

Host.Local.CloseApplication(app.Element)

[piotrn]

Apparently

PressKeys("{BACK}")

call is better to use for go-back user action:

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normal_delay = 30000 
...
app = Host.Local.Find[MobileApp](RxPath(mobile_app_id), normal_delay)[0]
app.PressKeys("{BACK}")

Note also that the app adapter reference must be found again before the KeyPress because it might be invalid because of previous app user action.

Cheers

[Support Team]

Hello,

I would recommend to use the PressKeys("{BACK}") method. If you take a look in the code, which is created by Ranorex Studio you will see that Ranorex also generates PressKeys("{BACK}") when you click the back button.
The method PressBackKey() is more or less for internal use in Ranorex.
In general I would also recommend to use the MobileApp capability and not the AndroidApp capability.

Regards,
Bernhard