Appium | How to hide Keyboard during mobile test execution

Appium | How to hide Keyboard duringmobile test execution:

Hiding Keyboard in mobile automation is one of the common action because sometime you want take screenshot of the entire page, that time half of the page will be covered with keyboard. So it will be good to hide keyboard based on your requirement. In your android mobile device, It will show you soft keyboard on screen automatically when you type text in text box of software app so it will hide some of the elements.

If you want to click or select element or value from drop down which is hidden behind android keyboard. For that, You need to hide android keyboard first so that you can see and select drop down value

 In Appium automation , we have hideKeyboard() method of AndroidDriver. Using this we can achive this.

 Let's learn how to hide android keyboard in appium mobile automation with example. Here I’m going to load google.com and enter search keyword on search box and hide the keyboard.

Now, we need to find the elements; we are going to find them by xpath:

for google search box:

WebElement searchBox = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='q']"));

for search button:

WebElement searchButton = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@class='Tg7LZd']"));

6. Now, we need to perform send text & hidekeyboard actions :

searchBox.sendKeys("mahantesh-hadimani blog");
driver.hideKeyboard();
searchButton.click();

7. Complete code should look like the following block of code:

package practise;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import io.appium.java_client.MobileElement;
import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver;

public class HideKeyBoardExample {

AndroidDriver<MobileElement> driver;
          
            @BeforeClass
            public void setUp() throws MalformedURLException
            {
                DesiredCapabilities cap=new DesiredCapabilities();
                cap.setCapability("deviceName", "emulator-5554");
                cap.setCapability("udid", "emulator-5554");
                cap.setCapability("browserName", "Chrome");
                cap.setCapability("platformName", "Android");
                cap.setCapability("platformVersion", "9.0");
                driver=new AndroidDriver<MobileElement>(new URL("http://0.0.0.0:4723/wd/hub"), cap);
                driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
                driver.get("https://www.google.com/");
            }
          
            @Test
            public void testExample(){
                      
                        WebElement searchBox = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='q']"));
                        searchBox.sendKeys("mahantesh-hadimani blog");   
                      
                        driver.hideKeyboard();
                       
                        WebElement searchButton = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@class='Tg7LZd']"));
                        searchButton.click();

                                  
            }

            @AfterClass
            public void tearDown(){
                        driver.quit();
            }

}

driver.hideKeyboard() - This appium command will be used to hide the keyboard in mobile. same method will work for native app, hybrid app & also for web app. irrespective of any type of mobile app you can use this method

Any issues?

Sometimes , your script will fail due to mismatch in the chrome browser version and chromedriver version. Makes sure you installed chromedriver which supports the mobile chrome browser.