Trouble with findViewByIdOrRaise in AndroidViewClient

Question

Trying to use MonkeyRunner to perform some testing and want to use AndroidViewClient to work with EditText widgets.

I believe I am using AndroidViewClient correctly (relevant stuff below), findViewByIdOrRaise() is always throwing an error. I've tried every variant of specifying an ID that came to mind.

Here is a snippet from my activity's XML:

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/someText"
    ... >
    <requestFocus />
</EditText>
<!-- Yes, that is the actual id of my EditText -->

In my MonkeyRunner script I have the following:

device, serialno = ViewClient.connectToDeviceOrExity(serialNo=myDeviceId)
vc = ViewClient(device=device, serialno=serialno)
device.installPackage(apkPath)
device.startActivity(component='com.app.name/com.app.name.ActivityName')
editTextId = 'id/someText'
try:
    someText = vc.findViewByIdOrRaise(editTextId)
    someText.touch()
    someText.type('Derp derp derp')
except ViewNotFoundException, e:
    # The comma above is because Jython 2.5.3 does not support the AS keyword
    print ' [*] %s' % (e)

Of course, my code is doing a little more (but not much) than what is shown. I stripped out everything that didn't seem relevant. I will gladly put it all up there, but didn't want to start off with code vomited all up in here.

I've looked at everything I could find on the topic:

• AndroidViewClient / AndroidViewClient / examples / email-send.py
• monkeyrunner: interacting with the Views
• How to enter text in text field using monkeyrunner
• How to enter values to a text field using monkeyrunner

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

The latest version of ViewClient gives a unique id to each view in the app. The id format is i/no_id/number. You could use a script called dump.py to see the current views. It is located in the examples folder in ViewClient.