How to simulate a touch event in Android?

Question

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

Answer 1

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?

Answer 2

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)