How do I click the first item in a spinner using Robotium?

Question

I am having problems scrolling up in a spinner to select the first item in a Robotium test case. Here is my code:

int pos = solo.getCurrentSpinners().get(0).getSelectedItemPosition();
solo.pressSpinnerItem(0, 0 - pos);

pos is 1 when I debug, but Robotium still presses the spinner on index 1 even though I order it to press on -1. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks Markus

Answer 1

Seems they took those classes out now. Just ran into this myself but found a way to do this properly and generically.

// 0 is the first spinner in the layout
View view1 = solo.getView(Spinner.class, 0);
solo.clickOnView(view1);
solo.scrollToTop(); // I put this in here so that it always keeps the list at start
// select the 10th item in the spinner
solo.clickOnView(solo.getView(TextView.class, 10)); 

Answer 2

The API to use here with Robotium is rather flaky, so I decided to go down the direct API route:

instrumentation.runOnMainSync(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        Spinner spinner = (Spinner) solo.getView(resourceId);
        spinner.setSelection(position, true);
    }
});

This won't show you the popup of the Spinner, but it will select the desired item.

Answer 3

are you able just to get the view and call the perform click on it?

solo.getCurrentSpinners().get(0).performClick()