How to click on an item inside a RecyclerView in Espresso

Question

I have a RecyclerView (R.id.recyclerView) where each row has an image (R.id.row_image) and a TextView. I want to click on the image in the first row.
I\'ve tried to use

Answer 1

With this code, you can scroll the recycler view to find your item withText and perform click or other action on it.

dependencies

androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.3.0'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-contrib:3.3.0'

Code

@Test
public void scrollRecyclerViewAndClick() {
    onView(withId(R.id.recycler_view)).
            perform(RecyclerViewActions.
            actionOnItem(withText("specific string"), click()));
}