how to Detect if Keyboard is shown in Xcode UI test

Question

I am writing a UI text in swift under the new Xcode 7 UI test framework. the requirement is to test whether the system keyboard is shown in an app. can someone give me a clue on how to do that? thanks

Answer 1

Add two observers

NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: "keyboardVisible:", name: UIKeyboardDidShowNotification, object: nil)
NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: "keyboardHidden:", name: UIKeyboardDidHideNotification, object: nil)

func keyboardVisible(notif: NSNotification) {
    print("keyboardVisible")
}

func keyboardHidden(notif: NSNotification) {
    print("keyboardHidden")
}

Whenever the keyboard is visible keyboardVisible will be called and whenever the keyboard is hidden keyboardHidden will be called.