How to simulate touch events on Android device?

Question

Does the Android API expose facilities for generating touch events, for example, repeatedly simulating different gestures on the screen for testing?

Varion

Answer 1

Doesn adb commands will work for u or u need some kind of monkay testing tool commands ???

For adb commands u can use below shell commands...

adb shell input tap x y and also

adb shell sendevent /dev/input/event0 3 0 5 adb shell sendevent /dev/input/event0 3 1 29 adb shell sendevent /dev/input/event0 1 330 1 adb shell sendevent /dev/input/event0 0 0 0 adb shell sendevent /dev/input/event0 1 330 0 adb shell sendevent /dev/input/event0 0 0 0

Brayton

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Answer 2

You can write an Android Instrumention Test to implement UI auto testing in android, see Tesing UI for a Single Activity and Android Testing Support Library.

If you are new to Android Test, I suggest you read Activity Testing first.

Sanatorium

Does it work for any application, even outside of the current application? Is there any sample of how to use it? – Depressant