ViewAction

public interface ViewAction

android.support.test.espresso.ViewAction
Known Indirect Subclasses


Responsible for performing an interaction on the given View element.

This is part of the test framework public API - developers are free to write their own ViewAction implementations when necessary. When implementing a new ViewAction, follow these rules:

Summary

Public methods

abstract Matcher<View> getConstraints()

A mechanism for ViewActions to specify what type of views they can operate on.

abstract String getDescription()

Returns a description of the view action.

abstract void perform(UiController uiController, View view)

Performs this action on the given view.

Public methods

getConstraints

Matcher<View> getConstraints ()

A mechanism for ViewActions to specify what type of views they can operate on. A ViewAction can demand that the view passed to perform meets certain constraints. For example it may want to ensure the view is already in the viewable physical screen of the device or is of a certain type.

Returns
Matcher<View> a Matcher that will be tested prior to calling perform.

getDescription

String getDescription ()

Returns a description of the view action. The description should not be overly long and should fit nicely in a sentence like: "performing %description% action on view with id ..."

Returns
String

perform

void perform (UiController uiController, 
                View view)

Performs this action on the given view.

Parameters
uiController UiController: the controller to use to interact with the UI.
view View: the view to act upon. never null.