Is it possible to “toggle software keyboard” via the code in UI test?

Question

I have UI tests which testing login functionality (and uses it to test other stuff), but sometimes when focus is changed from one field to another - the keyboard hides, and

Answer 1

Tested with Xcode 10.1 I tried different approaches but none of them solve how to get the simulator UDID

#Find the UDID of the booted simulator
#And use PlistBuddy to change the flag to true or false
#Set the variable useHardwareKeyboard with the desired result
#Relaunch the simulator
useHardwareKeyboard=false
export UDID=$(xcrun simctl list devices | grep "(Booted)" | grep -E -o -i "([0-9a-f]{8}-([0-9a-f]{4}-){3}[0-9a-f]{12})")
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :DevicePreferences:$UDID:ConnectHardwareKeyboard ${useHardwareKeyboard}" ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iphonesimulator.plist
xcrun simctl shutdown $UDID
xcrun simctl boot $UDID

You can also verify these changes.

Find your simulator UDID: (More here: https://nshipster.com/simctl/)

xcrun simctl list devices | grep "(Booted)" | grep -E -o -i "([0-9a-f]{8}-([0-9a-f]{4}-){3}[0-9a-f]{12})"

Run one of these commands and find your changes based on the UDID from above:

defaults read com.apple.iphonesimulator
#OR
open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iphonesimulator.plist