[BUG] HideKeyboard

[satishs22]

Description

hideKeyboard behaves inconsistently across drivers. With uiautomator2, it does nothing — the keyboard stays open. With devicelab, it dismisses the keyboard but also triggers an unintended back navigation gesture, causing the screen to navigate back.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Run command ./maestro.sh ./.maestro/contacts/contacts-search.yaml
2. With flow file .maestro/contacts/contacts-search.yaml
3. See error after hideKeyboard on line 34

Expected Behavior

hideKeyboard dismisses the software keyboard with no side effects. Screen should remain on the current view.

Actual Behavior

• devicelab: Keyboard is dismissed but an additional back gesture is triggered, navigating away from the current screen.
• uiautomator2: hideKeyboard is a no-op — keyboard remains visible.

Environment

• OS: macOS
• maestro-runner version: latest
• Executor: devicelab (primary), also reproduced on uiautomator2
• Device: Android emulator emulator-5554 (system-images;android-34;google_apis;x86_64)

Flow File

- tapOn:
    id: contacts-search-input
- inputText:
    id: contacts-search-input
    text: 'test'
- hideKeyboard   # ← triggers unintended back navigation on devicelab

Error Output

# devicelab: no explicit error, but subsequent assertions fail because the screen navigated back
# uiautomator2: hideKeyboard completes but keyboard remains visible

Additional Context

Workaround: replace hideKeyboard with a tap on a neutral element (e.g. the list or header) to dismiss the keyboard without triggering navigation.

[omnarayan]

@satishs22 Thanks for the detailed report I can understand the frustation. We ll work on it