Clicking on Action Bar Menu Items in Robotium

Question

I'm trying to run some automated tests in Robotium. I have the following code in my application which sets up an options menu :

  public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(com.actionbarsherlock.view.Menu menu) {
    com.actionbarsherlock.view.MenuInflater inflater = getSupportMenuInflater();
        inflater.inflate(R.layout.logoutmenu, menu);
        return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
   }

I try to click on the menu in Robotium using the code :

solo.sendKey(Solo.MENU);
solo.clickOnView(solo.getView(R.id.share)); //share is the id of the menu item

However my tests fail due with the error :

View is null and therefore cannot be clicked.

I have also tried using the code below which also failed :

solo.clickOnView(solo.getView(R.id.logoutmenu));
solo.clickOnMenuItem("Share My Artists"); 

Answer 1

if you are running Robotium tests on Android 4.0+, consider using solo.clickOnActionBarItem().

Answer 2

Just do that :

solo.sendKey(Solo.MENU);
solo.clickInList(5);

5 is the position just change it to the position of your Menu item the First is 1 , the Second is 2 etc.