Testing onPause() , onDestroy() using Robotium

Question

How can I use Robotium to verify that my Activity handles onPause(), onDestroy(), onResume() and similar calls correctly?

In my Robotium test I can call stuff like

solo.getCurrentActivity().onKeyDown(0, null);

but how can I simulate an activity being destroyed and recreated? I don't see any

solo.getCurrentActivity().onPause()

or

solo.getCurrentActivity().onDestroy()

methods that I can use? Is this not what Robotium is designed to do?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 20 '11 at 16:28

2

Use a test case base class that has access to Instumentation and then use Instrumentation#callActivityOnPause() and Instrumentation#callActivityOnDestroy().

answered Oct 20 '11 at 16:28

Diego Torres Milano

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 14 '14 at 11:47

This will destroy your activity and create a new one:

    getInstrumentation().runOnMainSync(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            activity.recreate();
        }
    });
    setActivity(null);
    activity = getActivity();

This only works on API 11 and up due to the call to "activity.recreate()". If you don't care about saving / restoring instance state in this test, you could call "activity.finish()" instead, which is available on all versions.

Testing onPause() , onDestroy() using Robotium

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