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  <p>Enables pressing KeyEvents on views.
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          <code><a href="/reference/android/support/test/espresso/action/KeyEventAction.html#BACK_ACTIVITY_TRANSITION_MILLIS_DELAY">BACK_ACTIVITY_TRANSITION_MILLIS_DELAY</a></code>
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          <code><a href="/reference/android/support/test/espresso/action/KeyEventAction.html#CLEAR_TRANSITIONING_ACTIVITIES_ATTEMPTS">CLEAR_TRANSITIONING_ACTIVITIES_ATTEMPTS</a></code>
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      <a href="/reference/android/support/test/espresso/action/KeyEventAction.html#KeyEventAction(android.support.test.espresso.action.EspressoKey)">KeyEventAction</a>(<a href="/reference/android/support/test/espresso/action/EspressoKey.html">EspressoKey</a> key)
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        Matcher&lt;View&gt;</code>
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      <a href="/reference/android/support/test/espresso/action/KeyEventAction.html#getConstraints()">getConstraints</a>()
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        <p>A mechanism for ViewActions to specify what type of views they can operate on.


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        <p>Returns a description of the view action.


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int BACK_ACTIVITY_TRANSITION_MILLIS_DELAY</pre>


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int CLEAR_TRANSITIONING_ACTIVITIES_ATTEMPTS</pre>


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int CLEAR_TRANSITIONING_ACTIVITIES_MILLIS_DELAY</pre>


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          150
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KeyEventAction (<a href="/reference/android/support/test/espresso/action/EspressoKey.html">EspressoKey</a> key)</pre>


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Matcher&lt;View&gt; getConstraints ()</pre>


  <p>A mechanism for ViewActions to specify what type of views they can operate on.

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void perform (<a href="/reference/android/support/test/espresso/UiController.html">UiController</a> uiController,
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