Selecting Native Tabs while Espresso testing

Question

I have a viewpager which utilizes the native actionbar Tabs as the indicator. I would like to navigate to different tabs, but Tab component is not a view therefore, onView, or withText does not work properly with perform clicks.

Is there a specific way I can do to navigate through the Tab navigation?

Answer 1

You could use swiping to navigate between your tabs:

onView(withId(R.id.viewpager)).perform(swipeLeft());
onView(withId(R.id.viewpager)).perform(swipeRight());