Solo.sendkey() function Home Hardware Button about robotium HOT 9 CLOSED

Thanks for this. This will be fixed in the next release.

This issue has been resolved in Robotium 2.0

While the KeyCode of Solo.LEFT has been changed, the function does not provide 
the possibility to perform mySolo.sendkey(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_HOME).

Maybe changing the following procedure in Solo like that:

    public void sendKey(int key)
    {
        switch (key) {
            case RIGHT:
                robotiumUtils.sendKeyCode(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_RIGHT);
                break;
            case LEFT:
                robotiumUtils.sendKeyCode(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_LEFT);
                break;
            case UP:
                robotiumUtils.sendKeyCode(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_UP);
                break;
            case DOWN:
                robotiumUtils.sendKeyCode(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_DOWN);
                break;
            case ENTER:
                robotiumUtils.sendKeyCode(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER);
                break;
            case MENU:
                robotiumUtils.sendKeyCode(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_MENU);
                break;
            case DELETE:
                robotiumUtils.sendKeyCode(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DEL);
                break;
            default:
                try {
                    robotiumUtils.sendKeyCode(key);
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    // TODO: handle exception
                }
                break;
        }
    }

Thanks for this, I have updated sendKey now.

Unless I am wrong this issue has reappeared in version 2.1 

A manual click in the emulator works fine.
Using robotium with 
    solo.sendKey(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_HOME); 
does not take the application to Home screen 

Setup for Comment 5:
Using Android 2.2
OS: Ubuntu Linux 10.04 in a VirtualBox 3.2.12 hosted on Windows 7

No, it has not reapeared. Its not for sure that KEYCODE_HOME does take one to 
the homescreen. If you e.g. try solo.sendKey(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_VOLUME_UP) or any 
other KeyEvent that is working fron an application point of view you will see 
that it works.

Sorry for bothering but why is not guaranteed that KEYCODE_HOME takes you to 
the Home screen ?

From the API documentation  one can read that KEYCODE_HOME is never delivered 
to the application, is this the problem?

-------------------snip---------------------------------
public static final int KEYCODE_HOME
Since: API Level 1

Key code constant: Home key. This key is handled by the framework and is never 
delivered to applications.
Constant Value: 3 (0x00000003
-------------------/snip----------------------------------

I asked about this here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25184160/android-instrumentation-home-button