How do you force an orientation change in an Android Instrumentation test?

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plainjimbo picture plainjimbo · Aug 18, 2010 · Viewed 16.6k times · Source

I'm writing some acceptance tests for an application using the ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2 class. I want to cause an orientation change from within the test to ensure that a number of things happen. Among these things are ensuring that Activity state is preserved, but also I'd like to ensure that the appropriate layout for the orientation is used.

I know I can simply test the onSaveInstanceState/onRestoreInstanceState/onPause/onResume/etc. methods to make sure instance state is preserved. However, I was wondering if there is actually a mechanism for causing an orientation change event?

Would this involve injecting some kind of motion event to trick the device/emulator into thinking that it has been rotated, or is there an actual method for this provided by the Instrumentation?

Thanks & Cheers!

Answer

AndrewKS picture AndrewKS · Jun 1, 2011

You do not actually have to use Robotium for this at all. In fact, if you view the source of Robotium all it is doing when you call

solo.setActivityOrientation(Solo.LANDSCAPE);

is

myActivity = this.getActivity(); // In your setUp method()

...

myActivity.setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE);

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