In testing compose `TextField` is there a way to s...

# compose-android

[Atul Gupta]

In testing compose TextField is there a way to simulate the keyboard backspace button while testing using androidx.compose.ui.test?

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

Focus the field and use performKeyInput to send a backspace key.

[Atul Gupta]

Thanks it worked

[Atul Gupta]

final solution is as follows(this is working in both commonTest and androidInstrumentaionTest)

// moving cursor to the end
onNode(hasSetTextAction()).requestFocus().performTextInputSelection(TextRange(3, 3))
onNode(hasSetTextAction()).performKeyInput { pressKey(Key.Backspace) }

is there a more concise way to do this?

Also, I saw one more API performKeyPress

onNode(hasSetTextAction().performKeyPress(KeyEvent(???))

But I couldn’t figure out what to pass ??? while writing the test in commonTest

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

I think keycodes might be platform-specific, so you'd probably have to define a common val to get the platform-specific backspace one