Appium on Android - SendKeys to EditText also types default text

After a lot of searching, I found that this is really a bug in Appium v 1.2.2:

https://discuss.appium.io/t/android-appium-1-2-2-sendkeys-issue-with-hinted-edit-text/309

Hopefully, as it is said there, it will be fixed in version 1.2.3.

Thanks for all your help!

Problem is you are using sendKeyEvent(67) only one time and that too at no proper place. What you have to do is first set your cursor at the end of the Text in Login field and then keep deleting each alphabet one by one until no more text is left in the field.

Eg: Try something like this

   WebElement login = textFieldsList.get(0);// Get the webelement where text is to be entered      string str = login.Text;// it will store the Text already written in login field        int textLength = str.Length;// find the lenght of the text that is to be removed        int x = login.Location.X +(textLength * 40); //        int y = login.Location.Y;//        TouchAction action = new TouchAction(driver);// TouchAction class is defined in appium library        action.Tap(testObject, x, y);//         for (int delete = 0; delete < str.Length; delete++)        {           rm.KeyEvent(67);        }    }

Hope it helps..

You're looking for

MobileElement textfield = driver.findElement(By.however(value))textfield.setValue('foo')

I haven't tested that function on Android, but it was built because textfield.sendKeys is unreliable on iOS/Instruments.

You could also try textfield.click(), textfield.clear(), and then textfield.sendKeys('foo')

Example usage

You'll need the Appium java-client