Calabash -Android: Can we simulate Home button on Android devices for Calabash-Android?

Question

Can we simulate Home button on Android devices for Calabash-Android? I need to tap on Home button in our scripts to execute my Scripts using Calabash.

Answer 1

I have not tried this yet myself. But looking around for a solution I did find this.

Link http://krazyrobot.com/2014/02/calabash-android-enter-text-from-keyboard-using-adb/ by Balazs Balazs aka krazyrobot

His solution is to use send keycodes, for the home button that is KEYCODE_HOME. Wrapping that into calabash would give you:

system("adb shell input keyevent KEYCODE_HOME")

Again I have not tried this, but it sounds like a solution.

Answer 2

Additionally, the

system("adb shell input keyevent KEYCODE_BACK")

works if you just want to go back a screen.