TestButler should close system dialogs that are shown at the moment it is starting

We in our team have faced some problem: before our test have started(and testButler was initialised) google play services have have crashed - so System Dialog appeared and test did not pass

Is there any instrument which allows testButler to close already opened dialogs? Should it be used when testButler is starting?

P.S. We have made a solution based on uiautomator - but I am not sure it is the best one:

 UiDevice uiDevice = UiDevice.getInstance(InstrumentationRegistry.getInstrumentation());
        UiObject crashMessageView = uiDevice.findObject(new UiSelector().resourceId(("android:id/message")));
        if (crashMessageView != null) {
            try {
                TestLog.w("Crash alert is found = " + crashMessageView.getText());
                uiDevice.findObject(new UiSelector().resourceId(("android:id/button1"))).click();
            } catch (UiObjectNotFoundException e) {
                TestLog.w("Could not click on crash dialog\n " + e);
            }
        }

[vovam]

There is yet another fix sendBroadcast(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CLOSE_SYSTEM_DIALOGS)); after TestButler setUp that solves the issue.

[drewhannay]

We typically solve this by making sure we send a back button key event via adb before starting tests.