How to enter the OK key using adb shell input text?

Question

I can input the text into a dialog with adb shell input text "blahblah" just fine. The text shows up and... sits there.

I can send a tap at coords of the OK button, to actually have the text take effect in whatever dialog I entered it - if I guess the screen orientation right, adapt to the current resolution, adapt to the current keyboard variant and so on. Terribly clunky.

Is there some magic character or keycode or some other neat way to have the shell perform the equivalent of pressing the "OK"?

In the above screenshot, it's the green ->| icon in the lower right. It sometimes changes with the exact field used, but the meaning is always the same: close the keyboard and proceed.

Answer 1

I believe that you're looking for adb shell input keyevent 66.
The keyevent is using for pressing the virtual keyboard keys, and code 66 is for ENTER key.
You can find here list of codes.

EDIT The mapping between the keys and the codes can be found at /system/usr/keylayout/qwerty.kl. You can do adb shell cat /system/usr/keylayout/qwerty.kl and see the codes you need.

Answer 2

You can use AndroidViewClient/culebra and forget about orientation, different screen sizes, etc.

As an example, let's say we want to enter text and press OK in this dialog (part of Api Demos)

just run

culebra -uGo myscript.py

when the window is displayed, click on the entry, type the text, then click OK and this script will be automatically generated

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
'''
Copyright (C) 2013-2016  Diego Torres Milano
Created on 2016-06-10 by Culebra v11.5.8
                      __    __    __    __
                     /  \  /  \  /  \  /  \ 
____________________/  __\/  __\/  __\/  __\_____________________________
___________________/  /__/  /__/  /__/  /________________________________
                   | / \   / \   / \   / \   \___
                   |/   \_/   \_/   \_/   \    o \ 
                                           \_____/--<
@author: Diego Torres Milano
@author: Jennifer E. Swofford (ascii art snake)
'''


import re
import sys
import os


try:
    sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.environ['ANDROID_VIEW_CLIENT_HOME'], 'src'))
except:
    pass

from com.dtmilano.android.viewclient import ViewClient

TAG = 'CULEBRA'

_s = 5
_v = '--verbose' in sys.argv


kwargs1 = {'ignoreversioncheck': False, 'verbose': False, 'ignoresecuredevice': False}
device, serialno = ViewClient.connectToDeviceOrExit(**kwargs1)
kwargs2 = {'forceviewserveruse': False, 'useuiautomatorhelper': False, 'ignoreuiautomatorkilled': True, 'autodump': False, 'startviewserver': True, 'compresseddump': True}
vc = ViewClient(device, serialno, **kwargs2)
#vc.dump(window='-1') # FIXME: seems not needed

vc.dump(window=-1)
vc.findViewByIdOrRaise("com.example.android.apis:id/username_edit").setText(u"hello culebra!")
vc.sleep(_s)
vc.dump(window=-1)
vc.findViewWithTextOrRaise(u'OK').touch()

when run, it will set the text to hello culebra! and touch OK. You can then adapt the generated script to your needs.

CulebraTester

CulebraTester is a new implementation of culebra as a service that runs on the device under test. It's now under closed beta testing but if you are interested in participating you can find the opt-in form at culebra.dtmilano.com (check under Support).

One of its features is to be able to detect the virtual keyboard and treat it the same as other Views.

This screenshot illustrates the test generated after touching A, b, c, and Next (which is what your are looking for).

The generated test is like this

/**
 * @@Test comment here@@
 *
 * @throws Exception
 */
@Test
public void culebraGeneratedTest() throws Exception {
    mDevice.findObject(By.clazz(Pattern.compile(".*")).desc("A").pkg("com.android.inputmethod.latin")).clickAndWait(Until.newWindow(), DEFAULT_TIMEOUT);
    mDevice.findObject(By.clazz(Pattern.compile(".*")).desc("b").pkg("com.android.inputmethod.latin")).clickAndWait(Until.newWindow(), DEFAULT_TIMEOUT);
    mDevice.findObject(By.clazz(Pattern.compile(".*")).desc("c").pkg("com.android.inputmethod.latin")).clickAndWait(Until.newWindow(), DEFAULT_TIMEOUT);
    mDevice.findObject(By.clazz(Pattern.compile(".*")).desc("Next").pkg("com.android.inputmethod.latin")).clickAndWait(Until.newWindow(), DEFAULT_TIMEOUT);
}

and you can compile, install and run as any other UiAutomator test.

As an additional example, this screenshot show how as you hover the virtual keyboard Views in the tree they are highlighted in the device representation