How to use UIAutomation to select image from UIImagePickerController

Question

We are trying to get a UIAutomation test around a flow in our app where a user selects an image from a UIImagePickerController. All the automation works great, until we try to select an image from the picker controller. It seems like we cannot get the right object to send the tap to. Here is what we are trying:

 UIALogger.logMessage("Navigation Title: " + app.navigationTitle() );
 window.collectionViews()[0].tapWithOptions({tapOffset:{x:0.5, y:0.5}});

The above will show the navigation title as "Moments", which means we are in the photo picker, but the second line gets no error - but does not select anything (no matter the coordinates).

The test ultimately fails being stuck on the photo selection screen.

I logged the element tree below, and you can see that it appears that there is a UICollectionView out there, but all the cells are the section headers and there are none in the debug log output that are actual 'photos'.

So how do we select an image from a UIImagePickerController with UIAutomation?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I fixed this by

app.tables.cells.element(boundBy: 1).tap()  
// this table has two rows // 1- Moments  // 2- Camera role
app.collectionViews["PhotosGridView"].cells["Photo, Landscape, January 11, 6:34 PM"].tap() // I want to select this item from moments

It is working.

Answer 2

First I pick the moments row, and then I select the photo. Later I click the button choose that confirms the picked image.

    let moments = app.tables.cells.element(boundBy: 0)
    moments.tap()
    sleep(3)
    let selectedPhoto = app.collectionViews.element(boundBy: 0).cells.element(boundBy: 0)
    sleep(3)
    selectedPhoto.tap()
    sleep(3)
    //Choose Button
    let chooseButton = app.buttons.element(boundBy: 1)
    chooseButton.tap()

Hope it helps

Answer 3

So, I figured this out. Duh. I just needed to access the visible cells and send the tap to one of those. Works like a charm.

window.collectionViews()[0].visibleCells()[0].tap();

I hope this helps someone else!