Android Studio and MonkeyTalk?

Question

Has anybody successfully set up MonkeyTalk with Android Studio?

My main problem at this point is I don't see a way to set the java compiler to aspectj

I believe there's some way to do this in custom_rules.xml, but I haven't seen how to do this yet.

This leads to a maybe unrelated problem, but in the newest version of Android Studio that I'm using (0.1.1), I don't see a way to run an ant build from inside Android Studio.

Any suggestions appreciated!

Answer 1

An approach that I have found works well for is to use the the android-gradle-aspject-j plugin found here https://github.com/uPhyca/gradle-android-aspectj-plugin

What I have done is create a new build type (monkeytalk), included the monkey talk jar as a compile dependency for only this build type and applied the above mentioned aspectj plugin. This ensures that the monkey talk weaving occurs for the monkey talk build type.

Here is a snippet of what my build xml looks like

buildscript {
  repositories {
    mavenCentral()
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath 'com.uphyca.gradle:gradle-android-aspectj-plugin:0.9.5'
  }
}
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'android-aspectj'

android {
  buildTypes {
    monkeytalk.initWith(buildTypes.debug)
    monkeytalk {
      applicationIdSuffix ".monkey"
    }
  }
}

dependencies {
  monkeytalkCompile(files("monkey-talk/monkeytalk-agent-2.0.5.jar"))
}

I also added an AndroidManifest.xml file for the monkey talk build types which adds the required permissions, i.e. GET_TASKS and INTERNET

For a complete sample app, have a look at this github repo https://github.com/georgepapas/android-gradle-monkey-talk-demo/

Answer 2

MonkeyTalk (as of version 2.0.1) has now released tools to "instrument" your already built regular apk with MonkeyTalk independent of any IDE. Steps to complete this instrumentation process in OS X:

1.Download MonkeyTalk 2.0.1 Pro Beta

2.Create a new empty folder on desktop titled "example" or whatever you like

3.Copy monkeytalkpro/agents/android/monkeytalk-agent-2.0.1.jar into "example" directory

4.Copy monkeytalkpro/ant/monkeytalkpro-ant-2.0.1.beta.jar into "example" directory

5.Copy your apk file into "example" directory (named myapp.apk for this example)

6.Create a new file called build.xml in "example" directory and fill it with the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns:mt="antlib:com.gorillalogic.monkeytalk.ant">

    <target name="instru">
        <mt:instrument
            srcfile="myapp.apk"
            destfile="myapp-post-instrumented.apk"
            agent="monkeytalk-agent-2.0.1.jar"
            androidsdk="/path/to/your/sdk"
            androidtarget="android-17"
            log="log.txt"
            verbose="true" />
        </target>

</project>

7.Open terminal and cd into your "example" directory

8.Issue command ant instru -lib monkeytalkpro-ant-2.0.1.beta.jar

9.The command should run and then produce a monkeytalk compatible apk in your "example" directory titled "myapp-post-instrumented.apk"

WARNING: There seems to be a bug where the instrumentation process will also place another file in your "example" directory titled "myapp-instrumented.apk", but this file will be empty. So make sure your destination file is not titled "myapp-instrumented.apk" in your build.xml file or this empty file will overwrite your monkeytalk compatible file.