I\'m in the process of working on an automated test suite for our android app, and running into trouble waiting for activities to fully load. I can call getActivity, but ju
As I mentioned in a comment, your view hierarchy should be working after your call to setContentView() early in onCreate(). I've never had any problems like this with any activity or test class..
I'm not sure this is of any help for this specific case, but in general you can determine when the UI event queue is empty by calling getInstrumentation().waitForIdleSync(). That'll block until there's no more UI events to process.