Android Automation Magic

Launch Application

There are 2 ways to go. [1]

• Without specifying an activity:

  monkey -p app.package.name 1

  Note that the pseudorandom operation usually turns on auto-rotation, from my experience.

• With a certain activity:

  am start [-S] app.package.name/.activityname (-S: force new activity)

  For the activity name, either use

  cmd package resolve-activity --brief app.package.name to obtain the "default" activity, or

  dumpsys window windows | grep Focus to obtain the activity on current screen.

  btw, kill by am force-stop app.package.name

Click/Swipe/Input/Press

Use the input applet to

• tap: input tap <x> <y>

• swipe: input swipe <x1> <y1> <x2> <y2> [duration]

  • canonically, from (x1, y1) to (x2, y2), with an optional swipe duration.
  • can be used to simulate a long press by setting (x1, y1) == (x2, y2) & duration = press time.

• input text: input text "the text to go" (be careful about the active input method)

• back/home/recent/etc. keys: input keyevent <keycode> (check keycodes here: 26=power, KEYCODE_APP_SWITCH=recent, 3=home, 4=back)

To show (x, y) coordiante, just turn on pointer location in phone's developer options, or by adb shell settings put system pointer_location 1 (0 to disable).