How to simulate a touch event in Android

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How to simulate a touch event with Android while giving the X and Y coordinates manually

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If I understand clearly  you want to do this programatically  Then  you could use the onTouchEvent method of View  and create a MotionEvent with the coordinates you need

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MotionEvent is generated only by touching the screen

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Valentin Rocher s method works if you ve extended your view  but if you re using an event listener  use this   view setOnTouchListener new OnTouchListener         public boolean onTouch View v  MotionEvent event                Toast toast   Toast makeText              getApplicationContext                  View touched                Toast LENGTH LONG                    toast show             return true                 Obtain MotionEvent object long downTime   SystemClock uptimeMillis    long eventTime   SystemClock uptimeMillis     100  float x   0 0f  float y   0 0f     List of meta states found here  developer android com reference android view KeyEvent html getMetaState   int metaState   0  MotionEvent motionEvent   MotionEvent obtain      downTime       eventTime       MotionEvent ACTION UP       x       y       metaState        Dispatch touch event to view view dispatchTouchEvent motionEvent     For more on obtaining a MotionEvent object  here is an excellent answer  Android  How to create a MotionEvent

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use adb Shell Commands to simulate the touch event  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

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Here is a monkeyrunner script that sends touch and drags to an application  I have been using this to test that my application can handle rapid repetitive swipe gestures     This is a monkeyrunner jython script that opens a connection to an Android   device and continually sends a stream of swipe and touch gestures      See http   developer android com guide developing tools monkeyrunner concepts html     usage  monkeyrunner swipe monkey py      Imports the monkeyrunner modules used by this program from com android monkeyrunner import MonkeyRunner  MonkeyDevice    Connects to the current device device   MonkeyRunner waitForConnection      A swipe left from  x1  y  to  x2  y  in 2 steps y   400 x1   100 x2   300 start    x1  y  end    x2  y  duration   0 2 steps   2 pause   0 2  for i in range 1  250         Every so often inject a touch to spice things up      if i   9    0          device touch x2  y   DOWN AND UP           MonkeyRunner sleep pause        Swipe right     device drag start  end  duration  steps      MonkeyRunner sleep pause        Swipe left     device drag end  start  duration  steps      MonkeyRunner sleep pause

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When using Monkey Script I noticed that DispatchPress KEYCODE BACK  is doing nothing which really suck  In many cases this is due to the fact that the Activity doesn t consume the Key event  The solution to this problem is to use a mix of monkey script and adb shell input command in a sequence    1 Using monkey script gave some great timing control  Wait a certain amount of second for the activity and is a  blocking adb call   2 Finally sending adb shell input keyevent 4 will end the running APK   EG  adb shell monkey -p com my application -v -v -v -f  sdcard monkey script txt 1 adb shell input keyevent 4

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You should give the new monkeyrunner a go  Maybe this can solve your problems  You put keycodes in it for testing  maybe touch events are also possible

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