android testing - Wait for view pager animations with espresso?

Question

Trying to do some tests with a ViewPager.

I want to swipe between tabs, and I don't want to continue until the swipe is complete. But there doesn't appear to be a way to turn off the animation for the view pager (all animations under the developer options are disabled).

So this always results in a test failure, because the view pager hasn't completed it's animation, and so the view is not completely displayed yet:

// swipe left
onView(withId(R.id.viewpager)).check(matches(isDisplayed())).perform(swipeLeft());

// check to ensure that the next tab is completely visible.
onView(withId(R.id.next_tab)).check(matches(isCompletelyDisplayed()));

Is there an elegant or maybe even recommended way to do this, or am I stuck putting some kind of timed wait in there?

Answer 1

The IdlingResource @Simas suggests is actually pretty simple to implement:

public class ViewPagerIdlingResource implements IdlingResource {

    private final String mName;

    private boolean mIdle = true; // Default to idle since we can't query the scroll state.

    private ResourceCallback mResourceCallback;

    public ViewPagerIdlingResource(ViewPager viewPager, String name) {
        viewPager.addOnPageChangeListener(new ViewPagerListener());
        mName = name;
    }

    @Override
    public String getName() {
        return mName;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isIdleNow() {
        return mIdle;
    }

    @Override
    public void registerIdleTransitionCallback(ResourceCallback resourceCallback) {
        mResourceCallback = resourceCallback;
    }

    private class ViewPagerListener extends ViewPager.SimpleOnPageChangeListener {

        @Override
        public void onPageScrollStateChanged(int state) {
            mIdle = (state == ViewPager.SCROLL_STATE_IDLE
                    // Treat dragging as idle, or Espresso will block itself when swiping.
                    || state == ViewPager.SCROLL_STATE_DRAGGING);
            if (mIdle && mResourceCallback != null) {
                mResourceCallback.onTransitionToIdle();
            }
        }
    }
}