eraseText only erases text until the middle if the text is long enough

[danielferromeral]

When I tapOn a textInput, the cursors sets in the middle. When I use eraseText, it stats to delete from that point, but if my text was longer that the middle, some letters are not deleted, so I have to tap again and delete it again.

I would like to be able to complete delete the text input with a single command, or to be able to move the cursor to the end.

[bartekpacia]

Hey @danielferromeral, thanks for creating the issue. Could you provide some more information? For example:

• OS, OS version, physical/virtual device?
• Framework used to build the app (e.g. SwiftUI, UIKit, Flutter, Compose?)
• screen recording would be great as well

[danielferromeral]

Hi @bartekpacia. I have tried in two different devices (both are virtual) and in two different views.

One of the devices was a Virtual iPhone 15 with iOS 17.5, and the views were made with Swift and UIKit.
The other device was a Virtual Pixel 8 Pro, and the views are made with Kotlin and Java, but not sure at all, the developer is in PTO.

The flow I used is this:

- runFlow:
    label: "Erase Text"
    commands:
        - tapOn: 
            id: "emailInput"
        - inputText "[email protected]"
        - tapOn: 
            id: "emailInput"
        - eraseText
        - tapOn: 
            id: "emailInput"
        - eraseText

And this is the result:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d9ab49ff-39de-48b0-a375-8a32bbf20b01

[bartekpacia]

Thanks a ton. If you could also drop an .apk, .app or some sample code in e.g. SwiftUI, that'd be great!

[danielferromeral]

Hi, I cannot provide a sample code, sorry, not a mobile dev. But I guess you could use any input text, like the search bar in the settings for Android. In fact, I made this little script with the search bar of the setting app and is the same bahavoiur. Hope it helps.

appId: com.android.settings

---

- launchApp
- tapOn:
    id: "com.android.settings:id/search_action_bar"
- inputText: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet"
# Here you would do other actions and the cursor would be no longer at the end of the text
- tapOn:
    id: "com.google.android.settings.intelligence:id/open_search_view_edit_text"
- eraseText
- tapOn:
    id: "com.google.android.settings.intelligence:id/open_search_view_edit_text"
- eraseText
- stopApp

[bartekpacia]

Thanks @danielferromeral, I was able to reproduce the problem thanks to your code sample.

Run video

repro.mp4

[hormesiel]

Running into the same problem with Maestro CLI v1.38.1 when executing tests on a physical Android device (OnePlus Nord, Android 12, connected to Windows 11 via USB). Also, this looks like it's a duplicate of #495.