Question

I am writing an activity test for an activity we wrote with 3 buttons. 2 of these buttons start other activities.

I can write a test that simulates a button push and then checks if the desired activity is running, but I can’t move back from that second activity. The second activity stays at the front and prevents the other tests, that assume the first activity is running, from working properly. They just kind of freeze.

I have a reference to the first activity, but it is the second activity I need to I guess call finish() on. Is there a way to do this?

EDIT: I added some actual source code illustrating my problem in this gist: https://gist.github.com/3076103

It is specifically about testing activities. In the production code everything is fine.

Answer 1

You should probably use http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Instrumentation.ActivityMonitor.html to get a reference of the second activity or you can block the second activity from being launched(Still you are guranteed that the call to start the second activity infact had reached till the framework).