Thanks Joseph, but I'm looking at doing automation of the entire
device, so input at any moment to any screen.

I've been writing some helper functions around Monkey scripts as I was
not able to use the private APIs (wasn't able to dig deep enough),
which seems to be working alright so far.

On Jul 22, 2:04 pm, Joseph Earl <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you want to do unit testing etc take a look at
> 1)http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/testing/helloandroid...
> and
> 2)http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/testing/activity_tes...
> which should help you out.
>
> On Jul 21, 9:14 pm, Matt Rusiniak <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi everyone,
>
> > I'm trying to figure out a way to send touch events to the foreground
> > activity. Essentially I want to write something that allows me to run
> > it from the shell and just say "I touched this co-ordinate", so that I
> > can automate some UI tasks for testing. Essentially what Monkey does,
> > but application agnostic.
>
> > I think that android.view.MotionEvent holds the key, but I'm not sure
> > how to run something without view so that I don't interfere with what
> > is on the screen. Perhaps with a service, but I'm unclear how that
> > would work.
>
> > Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Matt

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