Support unicode input

[dmitry-zaitsev]

At the moment Maestro does not allow to input unicode characters, so commands like this one won't work:

- inputText: Wünderbar

[dmitry-zaitsev]

On iOS, the issue is in the fact that idb inputs text by sending key events to the device, instead of passing the text as a whole.

[dmitry-zaitsev]

On Android, the issue is in the fact that adb shell input text {text} does not work with unicode.

We have tried to solve the problem in following ways:

• Use UiAutomator directly. This allows for input of unicode, but adds a weird limitation - it is not possible to append text input to a field due to the fact that if a field has a hint, it will be counted as a text.
• Use ADBKeyboard. While it looks promising, it also requires user to enable the keyboard in Android settings. We would like to keep Maestro configuration as simple as possible, so this is a no-go.

[mmeven]

Hi 👋
Any update on the subject ? The iOS issue makes it impossible to run tests when using any non-QWERTY keyboard layout.

Thank you for your time

[langtind]

Related iOS issue: The input don't handle different keyboard layout. I do use QWERTY, but with Norwegian layout. See image, _ and ? are swapped

Text editor vs actual simulator input:

edit: By reading #107 I see that this is already mentioned by others.

[marnoux-luna]

Hi @dmitry-zaitsev,

Do you have any update on this issue? Or any workaround other that switching the mac keyboard to QWERTY?

Thanks 🙏

Martin

[dmitry-zaitsev]

Unicode is now supported on iOS. Android is still work in progress

[dragonfire1119]

Unicode is now supported on iOS. Android is still work in progress

I have yet to get Maestro to type out a full email address. Are you sure it's fixed?

[ChristianSteffensen]

I'm interested to know the status of this too. Is there a way to interact with the keyboard itself as a workaround?

[dragonfire1119]

I'm interested to know the status of this too. Is there a way to interact with the keyboard itself as a workaround?

I had to just go back to using https://wix.github.io/Detox/ :(

It skips letters when you type, which throws off the whole test.

[NehaKharbanda99]

i am interested to know the status of this also - unicode suppprt for android. struggling for this.

[ignatovSA]

• Use UiAutomator directly. This allows for input of unicode, but adds a weird limitation - it is not possible to append text input to a field due to the fact that if a field has a hint, it will be counted as a text.

Probably, this limitation is not as bad as complete absence of Unicode

Do you have any plans on supporting android unicode? Is it possible to move forward with UiAutomator option?

[Thelm76]

For future reference, here is the ADB issue :
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/207386157