How to programmatically or with Espresso close spinner?

Question

Say I have two tests.

Each of them interacts with a spinner:

The first one clicks on it and fails.
The second one launches and also clicks a spinner(willing to open it) and now it is closed and onData() fails.

Tests must be independent.

What @Before method can i write to make sure spinner is closed on test start?

check this post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7287195/android-spinner-close and this too http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18447063/spinner-get-state-or-get-notified-when-opens — Radwa, Apr 11 '17 at 11:10
Thanks but those answers are either sad either suggest to play with some internals of an app. I hoped there are ways via instrumentation or espresso to accomplish this as it feels wrong to tweak actual code for UI testing. — Ivan, Apr 11 '17 at 11:25

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered May 09 '17 at 21:45

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This works Espresso.pressBack();

answered May 09 '17 at 21:45

user597159

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 11 '17 at 11:38

Ugly yet works for me...

@Before
public void setUp() {
    closeSpinner();
}

private void closeSpinner() {
    try {
        onData(is(instanceOf(String.class)))
                .atPosition(0)
                .perform(click());
    } catch (Exception e) {
        //was closed
    }
}

How to programmatically or with Espresso close spinner?

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