How to interact with system alert dialogs

[davidjonesdialexa]

Description

Our app calls a Cancel/Continue system alert dialog. The Matcher can't seem to locate the button to tap. Any ideas how to handle an element like this?

Detox version

19.4.5

React Native version

0.66.3

Node version

No response

Device model

iphone 11

Xcode version

13.2.1

iOS version

15.2

macOS version

12.2.1

Android version

No response

Test runner

jest-circus

[asafkorem]

Hi @davidjonesdialexa, unfortunately, Detox is not supporting interactions with system dialog, we are still working on this as part of XCUITest integration.

In the meanwhile, I can suggest to use a launch argument that will disable / fake the login while testing with Detox.

[cortisiko]

@davidjonesdialexa As a work around maybe you can you try something like this:

element(by.label("Continue")).atIndex(0).tap();

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[activebiz]

@davidjonesdialexa As a work around maybe you can you try something like this:

element(by.label("Continue")).atIndex(0).tap();

Tried this but doesnt work.

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[nero2009]

Please what is the fix for this?

[sebbyrum]

Is this still something that is being developed? Would be very helpful for a lot of projects I'm sure

[sjors98]

This works sometimes for me:

await element(by.label('Continue').and(by.type('_UIAlertControllerActionView'))).tap();

Where Continue is the text in the button you want to tap :)

[mariushorvat]

Is there a fix for this issue? Thanks!

[alfonsosn]

Bump.

[IvayloMetodiev]

Is there any development or workaround here? Finding elements by.text works in some cases but if there is a system alert on the screen nothing helps.

[hoangtrunnam]

I have the same problem, I can't fix this, Does anyone have an idea?

[KaterinaUK]

Hi everyone, any update on this issue? How can we pass through this issue?

[codeyogi911]

This is absolutely required, cannot login without this.

[hoangtrunnam]

@codeyogi911 you need to press the button on that dialog with your finger or mouse pointer. detox cannot catch that layout dialog

[AbdelhakLabyadh]

_UIAlertControllerActionView

This is working fine for me on iOS simulator, but it doesn't for android emulator. I couldn't find an alternative for Android. Any solutions please ?

[d4vidi]

_UIAlertControllerActionView

This is working fine for me on iOS simulator, but it doesn't for android emulator. I couldn't find an alternative for Android. Any solutions please ?

I think the UIDevice API can come in handy for Android (also check the reference there to the Android dev guide). I think techniques relying on DPadDown, DPadRight etc. could work best here.

You can try it out regardless of Detox in "playground" mode using ADB, with commands such as:

adb shell input keyevent KEYCODE_DPAD_DOWN

Please report back if you manage to sort that out 🙏🏻

[phoet]

how is anyone ever building a useful test suite with this library 😢

[asafkorem]

Support for system interactions was released with Detox v20.22

[vomchik]

Support for system interactions was released with Detox v20.22

Thank you for this functionality! Should it works with react-native Alert.alert ?

[asafkorem]

Support for system interactions was released with Detox v20.22

Thank you for this functionality! Should it works with react-native Alert.alert ?

Thanks! Yes :)

[vomchik]

Support for system interactions was released with Detox v20.22

Thank you for this functionality! Should it works with react-native Alert.alert ?

Thanks! Yes :)

@asafkorem For some reason it's doesn't works for me

I have tried both options: const button = system.element(by.system.label("Continue")); and const button = system.element(by.system.type("button")).atIndex(0);

Any ideas? 🤔

BTW, how DetoxXCUITestRunner knows which app we need to use for queries?

[vomchik]

Is it ok to see this path not related to my local machine?

[patriciazumo]

I'm having the same issue that @vomchik reported. I tried the latest version 20.23.0 but I didn't see any difference. Any idea of what I may be missing? Thank you!