How to handle the external activity of an application in android using robotium

Question

I am trying to automate an Android application (relocation services) using robotium. This application has a multimedia section, as well as electronic and telephone numbers for dialing, so when I click on any of these options (video, audio, phone, e-mail), you get into the native application (video, audio, phone, Email) Phone. So, how to handle the external activity of the application using robotium (for example, click the "Back" button to return to my application, or close the native camera or video application to return to my application)

Any answer would be a big help.

Answer 1

I think using Robotium , you cannot access other application resources from the target testing application.

Just use Instrumentation for this,

 Instrumentation inst = new Instrumentation(); inst.sendKeyDownUpSync(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK); 

But be sure that if you do this in an Activity , then put it in a separate thread to run this code.

Answer 2

You can only access your own application within the framework of the toolkit. There are several options:

• remove the default apps and add some fake apps to handle the intent (see https://github.com/bryanl/FakeCamera ). to remove the application: http://oneclickandroid.blogspot.de/2009/01/how-to-remove-defaultpreloaded.html
• refuse applications that you want to control with your key so that you can measure them (see http://code.google.com/p/robotium/wiki/RobotiumForPreInstalledApps )
• install your application with system rights ( Android INJECT_EVENTS permission ), but have not tried the method

Answer 3

Sorry this is ...

I just launched the stub and gallery that I made / used in the game store ... I thought maybe it’s useful for you / others to test the camera and gallery in automated tests.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hitherejoe.CameraStub&hl=en

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hitherejoe.GalleryStub&hl=en_GB