The back button is fine, but you can't simulate the exact behaviour of the home button. For example, bringing up the recent apps menu when long pressing it.
Good work-around for some scenarios though. On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Houcem Berrayana <houcem.berray...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had exactelly the same problem as you. Using that piece of code I > could simulate Home and Back key events. > Regards, > > On 15 fév, 10:52, Sean Hodges <seanhodge...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Well, the two things I can tell you about it is: >> >> 1) They show exactly how they did it by giving you the source code. >> >> 2) They don't show you how to programatically send "Menu" or "End >> Call" button presses, because it is not possible to simulate those >> buttons (as Mark stated already). >> >> Those hardware buttons are restricted to application developers, you >> can't simulate them. You also can't end *any* active call from your >> app, which is what the "End Call" button obviously does. The one thing >> you can do is make your options menu appear without requiring the menu >> button (I've not tested this): >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... >> >> But this does not involve simulating key presses. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:28 AM, saru <sarucs...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > hey, Please tell me >> > abouthttp://davanum.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/android-simulate-key-strokes/. >> > How they did it >> >> > On Feb 14, 7:17 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: >> >> saru wrote: >> >> > Hey i want to write a program in android to press menu button or end >> >> > button or answer button automatically. >> >> >> You can't, sorry. >> >> >> -- >> >> Mark Murphy (a Commons >> >> Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy >> >> >> Android Consulting/App Development:http://commonsware.com/consulting >> >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups "Android Developers" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> > For more options, visit this group at >> >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en