Click a textview in RecyclerView with Espresso

Question

I have a unit test to do and I have to click on a Textview that is in the first position of a recyler view. I have this code

 onView(withId(R.id.recyclerViewDevices))
                .perform(actionOnItemAtPosition(0, click()));

but I want to click only in the textView that as the name of "CONNECT" and not in all the position. Can you help me?

I think you have to use onData and onChildView for working with lists. https://google.github.io/android-testing-support-library/docs/espresso/basics/index.html#using-ondata-with-adapterview-controls-listview-gridview- — Christopher, Jan 26 '17 at 12:35
Possible duplicate of - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28476507/using-espresso-to-click-view-inside-recyclerview-item — Dibzmania, Jan 26 '17 at 12:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 26 '17 at 12:36

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You can achieve it with a custom ViewAction

private class ClickOnTextView implements ViewAction {

    ViewAction click = click();
    int textViewId;

    public ClickOnTextView(int textViewId) {
        this.textViewId = textViewId;
    }

    @Override
    public Matcher<View> getConstraints() {
        return click.getConstraints();

    }

    @Override
    public String getDescription() {
        return " click on TextView with id: " + textViewId;
    }

    @Override
    public void perform(UiController uiController, View view) {
        click.perform(uiController, view.findViewById(textViewId));
    }
}

Then change your code to:

onView(withId(R.id.recyclerViewDevices)).perform(RecyclerViewActions.actionOnItemAtPosition(0, new ClickOnTextView(R.id.CONNECT)));

answered Jan 26 '17 at 12:36

Gustavo Pagani

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ViewAction click = click(); this line gives an error on click(); – Jose Jan 26 '17 at 12:40
Add to your imports: ```import static android.support.test.espresso.action.ViewActions.click;``` – Gustavo Pagani Jan 26 '17 at 12:41
it does not connect. It keeps in the activity and does nothing :S – Jose Jan 26 '17 at 12:45
try the solution described [here](http://stackoverflow.com/a/32788964/1401164) then – Gustavo Pagani Jan 26 '17 at 12:54
do you want to click on the textview with **id** "connect" or with **text** "connect"? – Gustavo Pagani Jan 26 '17 at 12:56
with text connect – Jose Jan 26 '17 at 14:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 26 '17 at 13:30

Use this piece of code:

public static ViewAction clickChildViewWithId(final int id) {
    return new ViewAction() {
        @Override
        public Matcher<View> getConstraints() {
            return null;
        }

        @Override
        public String getDescription() {
            return "Click on a child view with specified id.";
        }

        @Override
        public void perform(UiController uiController, View view) {
            View v = view.findViewById(id);
            v.performClick();
        }
    };
}

and use it like this:

onView(allOf(withId(R.id.ID_OF_RECYCLERVIEW), isDisplayed())).perform(RecyclerViewActions.actionOnItemAtPosition(POSITION_IN_RECYCLERVIEW, clickChildViewWithId(R.id.ID_OF_TEXTVIEW)));

Click a textview in RecyclerView with Espresso

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