Android typing slow

[joe-yeomans]

Description

When running detox tests on android the typing seems to be really slow, and it's even slower on my CI. iOS is fine and types quiet fast. What could be causing this?

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/90803159/191717576-6813f77b-e600-45bc-a440-b8d68f434b1c.mp4

Your environment

Detox version: 19.12.1 React Native version: 0.69.5 Node version: Device model: Pixel 5 Android 12 API 31 OS: MacOS Test-runner (select one): jest-circus

[timkomip]

I ran into the same problem. For us, it seemed related to synchronization. From my understanding, because Detox is a gray box testing framework, it knows when the system is doing something (like IO) and will pause to let the system "settle". I think it's typing slow because it's waiting for things to "settle" after each character is typed.

https://github.com/wix/Detox/blob/master/docs/Troubleshooting.Synchronization.md

I used

await device.disableSynchronization();

to disable synchronization and used

await device.enableSynchronization();

after typing to turn it back on.

I don't know if it was the correct solution but it helped.

[joe-yeomans]

I have tried doing that before typing and it seems to just be as slow:

    await device.disableSynchronization();
    await element(by.id('input-login-email')).typeText(
        '[email protected]'
    );
    await element(by.id('input-login-password')).typeText('Password123');
    await element(by.id('input-login-orgid')).typeText('XXXXX\n');
    await device.enableSynchronization();

When typing all I can see this in the logs:

09:17:33.129 detox[26516] INFO:  [APP_STATUS] The app seems to be idle
09:17:43.133 detox[26516] INFO:  [APP_STATUS] The app seems to be idle
09:17:53.136 detox[26516] INFO:  [APP_STATUS] The app seems to be idle
09:18:05.219 detox[26516] INFO:  [APP_STATUS] The app seems to be idle
09:18:23.175 detox[26516] INFO:  [APP_STATUS] The app seems to be idle
09:18:36.210 detox[26516] INFO:  [APP_STATUS] The app is busy with the following tasks:
• "LooperIdlingResource-135-mqt_js" (JS Thread) is executing (JavaScript code).
• UI elements are busy:
  - Reason: UI rendering activity.
• Activity on the React-Native bridge.
09:18:56.656 detox[26516] INFO:  [APP_STATUS] The app is busy with the following tasks:
• "LooperIdlingResource-135-mqt_js" (JS Thread) is executing (JavaScript code).
• UI elements are busy:
  - Reason: UI rendering activity.
• Activity on the React-Native bridge.

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[raldred]

Same, it's excruciatingly slow on Android.

See

The app is busy with the following tasks:
• "LooperIdlingResource-114-mqt_js" (JS Thread) is executing (JavaScript code).

And

The app is busy with the following tasks:
• Activity on the React-Native bridge.

repeated multiple times.

[agestaun]

Facing the same issue

[d4vidi]

Same, it's excruciatingly slow on Android.

See

The app is busy with the following tasks:
• "LooperIdlingResource-114-mqt_js" (JS Thread) is executing (JavaScript code).

And

The app is busy with the following tasks:
• Activity on the React-Native bridge.

repeated multiple times.

Well to be reading it out loud, it looks like Detox is alerting you with the fact that typing somehow overloads your system. Do you happen to be using some sort of a fancy input component? Does typing manually (regradless of Detox) work smoothly, at all?

In any case, sharing a video would help a great deal.

[ShanaSkydancer]

I'm in the same situation. Works very quickly on iOS but takes forever (and even fails due to not finding the typed element) on Android.

[tupikvtypike]

I'm in the same situation.

[markios]

Is there any update on this, I can't use typeText on API 33+ and now on 32 it's just so slow?!

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