When working with a list view control, you can use specific properties and methods of the Android ListView object that corresponds to this control. This topic explains how to select single and multiple list view items.

Selecting Custom Items Using Native Methods

Simulating Actions From Keyword Tests

Selecting a Single List View Item

To select a single list view item, you can use various actions provided by Android ListView object:

TouchItem, LongTouchItem, and similar actions – simulate touch or long touch on a specific list view item.
SelectItem– selects or unselects the specified list view item.

All these actions have the Item parameter that specifies the caption or zero-based index of the desired item. Note that it is possible to use wildcards (* and ?) or regular expressions to specify an item’s caption. For more information, see Addressing ListView Items.

The following example demonstrates how you can use the mentioned actions in scripts:

JavaScript, JScript

function Test()
{
  // Select an Android device
  Mobile.SetCurrent("MyDevice");

  // Obtain an application
  var app = Mobile.Device().Process("com.example.myapp");

  // Obtain a list view
  listViewObj = app.Layout("layoutListView").ListView("lv1");

  // Touch some items
  listViewObj.TouchItem(0);
  listViewObj.LongTouchItem(3);

  // Select an item
  listViewObj.SelectItem(4);
}

Python

def Test():
  # Select an Android device
  Mobile.SetCurrent("MyDevice")

  # Obtain an application
  app = Mobile.Device().Process("com.example.myapp")

  # Obtain a list view
  listViewObj = app.Layout("layoutListView").ListView("lv1")
  
  # Touch some items
  listViewObj.TouchItem(0)
  listViewObj.LongTouchItem(3)
  
  # Select an item
  listViewObj.SelectItem(4)

VBScript

Sub Test()
  ' Select an Android device
  Mobile.SetCurrent("MyDevice")

  ' Obtain an application
  Set app = Mobile.Device.Process("com.example.myapp")

  ' Obtain a list view
  Set listViewObj = app.Layout("layoutListView").ListView("lv1")

  ' Touch some items
  listViewObj.TouchItem(0)
  listViewObj.LongTouchItem(3)

  ' Select an item
  listViewObj.SelectItem(4)
End Sub

DelphiScript

procedure Test();
var
  app, listViewObj: OleVariant;
begin
  // Select an Android device
  Mobile.SetCurrent('MyDevice');

  // Obtain an application
  app := Mobile.Device.Process('com.example.myapp');

  // Obtain a list view  listViewObj := app.Layout('layoutListView').ListView('lv1');

  // Touch some items
  listViewObj.TouchItem(0);
  listViewObj.LongTouchItem(3);

  // Select an item
  listViewObj.SelectItem(4);
end;

C++Script, C#Script

function Test()
{
  // Select an Android device
  Mobile["SetCurrent"]("MyDevice");

  // Obtain an application
  var app = Mobile["Device"]["Process"]("com.example.myapp");

  // Obtain a list view  var listViewObj = app["Layout"]("layoutListView")["ListView"]("lv1");

  // Touch some items
  listview["TouchItem"](0);
  listview["LongTouchItem"](3);

  // Select an item
  listview["SelectItem"](4);
}

Selecting Custom Items Using Native Methods

Currently, TestComplete does not support custom items of a list view. However, you can obtain it using the Object Spy window. To learn how to do this, see Addressing Objects in Android Open Applications (Legacy).

Custom items are represented as child objects of a list view object. Note, that items that are out of the screen are not available in the Object Browser. To reach the desired items that are out of the screen, you can use the smoothScrollToOffset native method. This method scrolls the list view to the specified items offset. The following code snippet shows how you can use it:

listViewObj.smoothScrollToOffset(1) // Scroll the list view to one item down

listViewObj.smoothScrollToOffset(-1) // Scroll the list view to one item up

listViewObj.smoothScrollToOffset(listViewObj.ChildCount) // Scroll the list view to the next items, that can be shown on the screen

The collection of the list view's child objects contains only those objects that are visible on screen. When you scroll the list view, the child objects that leave the list area are deleted from the object hierarchy. They are replaced by other child objects that, most likely, have the same recognition attributes.

To learn if you can scroll to the specified item offset, you can use the canScrollVertically method.

The following example demonstrates how you can obtain the text of the Button control that is included in a custom item of the list view:

JavaScript, JScript

function test()
{
  // Select an Android device
  Mobile.SetCurrent("MyDevice");

  // Obtain an application
  var app = Mobile.Device().Process("com.example.myapp");

  // Obtain a list view
  var listViewObj = app.RootLayout("").Layout("layoutTop").ListView("lv1");

  // Obtain the button control

  var btn = listViewObj.Layout("NO_ID").Button("button1");

  // Obtain the text of the button
  var btnText = btn.ControlText;

  // Posts the name to the log
  Log.Message(btnText);
}

Python

def Test():
  # Select an Android device 
  Mobile.SetCurrent("MyDevice")

  # Obtain an application 
  app = Mobile.Device().Process("com.example.myapp")

  # Obtain a list view 
  listViewObj = app.RootLayout("").Layout("layoutTop").ListView("lv1")
  
  # Obtain the button control 
  btn = listViewObj.Layout("NO_ID").Button("button1")

  # Obtain the text of the button
  btnText = btn.ControlText

  # Posts the name to the log
  Log.Message(btnText)

VBScript

Sub Main()
  ' Select an Android device
  Mobile.SetCurrent("MyDevice")

  ' Obtain an application
  Set app = Mobile.Device.Process("com.example.myapp")

  ' Obtain a list view
  Set listViewObj = app.RootLayout("").Layout("layoutTop").ListView("lv1")

  ' Obtain the button control

  Set btn = listViewObj.Layout("NO_ID").Button("button1")

  ' Obtain the text of the button
  btnText = btn.ControlText

  ' Posts the name to the log
  Log.Message(btnText)

End Sub

DelphiScript

procedure Test();
var
  app, listViewObj, btn, btnText: OleVariant;
begin
  // Select an Android device
  Mobile.SetCurrent('MyDevice');

  // Obtain an application
  app := Mobile.Device.Process('com.example.myapp');

  // Obtain a list view
  listViewObj := app.RootLayout('').Layout('layoutTop').ListView('lv1');

  // Obtain the button control

  btn := listViewObj.Layout('NO_ID').Button('button1');

  // Obtain the text of the button
  btnText := btn.ControlText;

  // Posts the name to the log
  Log.Message(btnText);
end;

C++Script, C#Script

function test()
{
  // Select an Android device
  Mobile["SetCurrent"]("MyDevice");

  // Obtain an application
  var app = Mobile["Device"]["Process"]("com.example.myapp");

  // Obtain a list view
  var listViewObj = app["RootLayout"]("")["Layout"]("layoutTop")["ListView"]("lv1");

  // Obtain the button control

  var btn = listViewObj["Layout"]("NO_ID")["Button"]("button1");

  // Obtain the text of the button
  var btnText = btn["ControlText"];

  // Posts the name to the log
  Log["Message"](btnText);
}

Selecting Multiple Items

If a list view control supports multiple selection, you can select several items at a time using SelectItem and MultiSelect actions.

To select or unselect all the items in the list view, use the SelectItem action with the Item parameter set to -1.

listview.SelectItem(-1, true) // Select all the items

listview.SelectItem(-1, false) // Deselect all the items

To select several items in the control, use the MultiSelect action. You can specify items using an array of their indexes or by their captions separated by the pipeline character (“|”).

The following code snippet demonstrates how to select a set of items:

JavaScript, JScript

var items = [0, 2, 5];
listViewObj.MultiSelect(items);
listViewObj.MultiSelect("Item1|Item4|Item24")

Python

items = [0, 2, 5]
listViewObj.MultiSelect(items)
listViewObj.MultiSelect("Item1|Item4|Item24")

VBScript

items = Array(0, 2, 5)
listViewObj.MultiSelect(items)
listViewObj.MultiSelect("Item1|Item4|Item24")

DelphiScript

items := [0, 2, 5];
listViewObj.MultiSelect(items);
listViewObj.MultiSelect('Item1|Item4|Item24');

C++Script, C#Script

var items = [0, 2, 5];
listViewObj["MultiSelect"](items);
listViewObj["MultiSelect"]("Item1|Item4|Item24")

Simulating Actions From Keyword Tests

This topic explains how to select items of the list view control in scripts. You can use the described actions in keyword tests too. To do this, use the On-Screen Action or the Call Object Method operations.

Selecting List View Items

Selecting a Single List View Item

Selecting Custom Items Using Native Methods

Selecting Multiple Items

Simulating Actions From Keyword Tests

See Also