Button Pressing Emulation On Android
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IntroductionEdit
Sometimes, during the development phases, real hardware buttons are not available, causing bad interaction with the Android interface. It would help to have an emulator to send events as button pressing to the Android system, and it's here that the MonkeyRunner tool shows its usefulness.
Emulating key pressingEdit
Once the connection is established, you can run MonkeyRunner from your PC and enter the commands from the interactive shell. As an example, the following sequence emulates the "HOME" button pressing down:
# Imports the monkeyrunner modules used by this program
from com.android.monkeyrunner import MonkeyRunner, MonkeyDevice
# Connects to the current device, returning a MonkeyDevice object
device = MonkeyRunner.waitForConnection(10,"emulator-5554")
# Presses the Home button
device.press('KEYCODE_HOME',MonkeyDevice.DOWN_AND_UP)