Robotium: How do I wait for loading to complete before proceeding?

Question

I want to write a Robotium/Junit test for an android app. At certain steps, I want my test to wait until the spinning loading symbol disappears off the screen.

How can I do that?

Hexachord

Answer 1

There are different ways in which you can do that. In Robotium there are a lot of different waitFor methods that you can use. In your case you can use:

solo.waitForDialogToClose() //waits for the dialog to close
solo.waitForActivity() // if there is a activity change
solo.waitForText() //if a certain text appears after the loading is done
solo.waitForView() //if a certain view is shown after the load screen is done.

Please see the Robotium API Documentation for more waitFor methods in Robotium.

Fahy

Thanks... it seems to work but takes longer than I expected when I use this command: solo.waitForActivity(solo.getCurrentActivity().toString()); – Hexachord

@Fahy If i want to wait for horizontal progress bar means, how could i use these methods? – Gerigerianna

solo.waitForDialogToClose() will not work if u have alert dialog immediately after progressdialog, robotium will will wait for alert dialog to close. – Citole