XCUITest and UIActivityViewController

Question

How do you access a UIActivityViewController (share / actions sheet) in XCUITest? According to the Accessibility Inspector, t is comprised of several UICollectionViews, which makes it hard to disambiguate the sheet itself.

Querying for XCUIApplication().sheets.count returns 0 when the sheet is presented.

Answer 1

It turns out, when using the view debugger, the sheet is accessible via a somewhat hidden accessibilityIdentifier of ActivityListView (as of Xcode 9.2). It can be accessed with:

XCUIApplication().otherElements["ActivityListView"]

Note that the "Cancel" button is added to the window separately, so it not a child of the activity controller and must be accessed with

XCUIApplication().buttons["Cancel"]