Programmatically click on Android notification

Question

I am black-box testing an application by using the Robotium framework. The app under test send a notification in the status bar each time I install a new application. I would like to click on that notification, but I still did not find a proper way to do it.

When I manually click on one notification I get this logcat lines:

I/ActivityManager(  148): START {flg=0x14000000 cmp=com.test.package/.activity.FrontActivity bnds=[0,38][240,86] (has extras) u=0} from pid -1
I/ActivityManager(  148): START {flg=0x14000000 cmp=com.test.package/.activity.ResultActivity u=0} from pid 8600
I/ActivityManager(  148): Displayed com.test.package/.activity.FrontActivity: +1s183ms
I/ActivityManager(  148): Displayed com.test.package/.activity.ResultActivity: +744ms

I know Robotium cannot test 2 different applications at the same time, as well as I know you can't get the notification of an external application.

I also tried to get the pending intent and fire it up by using the following code:

Context context = this.getInstrumentation().getTargetContext().getApplicationContext();
String intentClassString = "com.test.package.activity.FrontActivity";
Class<?> intentClass = null;

try {
    intentClass = Class.forName(intentClassString);
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Intent intent = new Intent(context, intentClass);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_NO_CREATE);

try {
    pendingIntent.send();
} catch (CanceledException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

The activity is actually showed, but it is different from what I obtain by manually invoking it. I think something is wrong in the context I pass, or the way I call the pending intent.

Any hint about this issue? Is there a better way to simulate the click on a notification?

Answer 1

You can trigger the swipe on notification bar and tap event on notification.

Refer commands :

adb shell input swipe 100 500 400 100 1000

adb shell input tap 400 400

by changing the arguments you can use these commands.