Test if soft keyboard is visible using espresso

Question

I want to test keyboard visibility when an activity calls onCreate() and onResume().

How can i test whether or not the keyboard is shown using espresso?

Answer 1

This is a kind of trick to check if keyboard is visible, it's not a perfect solution but for me was enough:

1. check if the fragment/activity container is displayed
2. perform a press back
3. check if the same fragment/activity container is displayed

Simple code example:

onView(allOf(withId(R.id.myFragment),isDisplayed()));
onView(withId(R.id.myFragment)).perform(pressBack());
onView(allOf(withId(R.id.myFragment),isDisplayed()));

If keyboard is visible means that the second time you press back button the view container is still there ;)

Hope this help!