How to enter text into a textfield in a web view using UIAutomation

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My iOS app has a log-in page with username and password textfields. These text fields are in a web view. I am trying to automate the log-in process with UIAutomation. I know that working with content in a web view with UIAutomation is tricky. I am able to tap into the text fields using target.tap({x:100, y:200}); but I want to have UIAutomation enter text after the field has been tapped. How can I achieve this? ios  iphone  uiwebview  ui-automation  ios-ui-automation share improve this question edited Oct 28 '13 at 14:36 halakala 709 5 17 asked  Feb 7 '13 at 20:50 Edwin Quan 6 3

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You can do something like: Get the reference to the webview var webView=window.scrollViews()[0].webViews()[0]; Tap the textView that you want to edit: webView.textFields()[0].tap(); Use the keyboard UIATarget.localTarget().frontMostApp().keyboard().typeString("text"); You can use: webView.logElementTree() to find out your webview. share improve this answer edited Jul 17 '13 at 17:01 Alois Mahdal 2,421 1 17 46 answered  Jul 17 '13 at 16:33 Felix 1,049 9 11

This works. It's how I do it, although I have my own little framework to make it easier. –   Nick Turner  Oct 14 '13 at 14:24 One important caveat - you need to make sure you disable the hardware keyboard, or the software keyboard will never show up Hardware ➜ Keyboard ➜ Connect Hardware Keyboard (Toggle to OFF) Also, I seem to need a delay between the tap() and typeString() –   stephan.com  Feb 10 at 14:55  add a comment

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Yes this is quite possible but instead of going through the position of the text field, I'd suggest going through the id/name of the text field. Another approach is to traverse the application window.  Try following this apple's documentation - http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/InstrumentsUserGuide/UsingtheAutomationInstrument/UsingtheAutomationInstrument.html This will give you a head start and many other ideas.  share improve this answer answered  Mar 3 '13 at 1:06 satyajit 409 1 9 22

I'd like to do this, but any of the methods available (such as withName()) do not seem to work with textfields within UIWebView's. Any suggestions? –   rdougan  Jul 25 '13 at 22:12