Android - testing if another activity has started

I am trying to test the following scenario, enter a letter in the autocomplete textview, scroll down and select one of the options, then click a button, The button click starts a new activity. I want to check if the new activity has begun or not. This is the test method.

public void testSpinnerUI() {

    mActivity.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
        public void run() {

            mFromLocation.requestFocusFromTouch(); // use reqestFocusFromTouch() and not requestFocus()
        }
    });
    //set a busstop that has W in it, and scroll to the 4th position of the list - In this case Welcome
    this.sendKeys(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_W);
    try {
        Thread.sleep(2000); //wait for 2 seconds so that the autocomplete loads
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    for (int i = 1; i <= 4; i++) {
      this.sendKeys(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_DOW开发者_StackOverflow中文版N);
    }

    this.sendKeys(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_CENTER);

    assertEquals("Welcome", mFromLocation.getText().toString());

    //hit down arrow twice and centre button

    this.sendKeys(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_DOWN);
    this.sendKeys(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_DOWN);

    this.sendKeys(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_DPAD_CENTER);

    assertEquals(com.myApp.RouteListActivity.class, getActivity());

}

The test fails at the last assertEquals(com.myApp.RouteListActivity.class, getActivity()). Can you please guide me on how to test if the new activity has been started or not?

You'll need to use the ActivityManager as conveniently demonstrated here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3908029/android-get-icons-of-running-activities

The short summary:

ActivityManager am = (ActivityManager) getSystemService(Service.ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
List<ActivityManager.RecentTaskInfo> processes = am.getRecentTasks(5);

gets you a list of all the running processes (you'll need the GET_TASKS permission). You can search through that list for your Activity: one of those tasks should have an origActivity property with the same name as your Activity.