Android Espresso - Web browser

Question

I have a question

I want to test whether after button click the web browser is beign launched using espresso. And the question is: is it even possible to test such thing? If so any ideas how would I do that?

Answer 1

Although it's an old question but just posting here to help anyone else. I had the same situation where i wanted to verify whether a particular url was launched in browser or not. I got real help from this link

I got it working using this chunk of code:

    Intents.init();
    Matcher<Intent> expectedIntent = allOf(hasAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW), hasData(EXPECTED_URL));
    intending(expectedIntent).respondWith(new Instrumentation.ActivityResult(0, null));
    onView(withId(R.id.someid)).perform(click());
    intended(expectedIntent);
    Intents.release();

So, it tests when browser is opened with correct url and intending() does the magic here by enabling intent stubbing. Using this, we can intercept it so the intent is never sent to the system.