Simulating System Wide Touch Events on iOS [duplicate]

Question

Im trying to simulate a touch on as UIWebView, how can I programmatically fire a touch event at a certain location? (x and y coordinates) Just call touchesBegan?

Ideally I'd like to do it without any javascript hack because in the future it may not be a uiwebview

Answer 1

It's not easy to synthesize a touch event on the iPhone: you have to use undisclosed API, so you have a high probability of breaking on every update of the iOS and getting rejecting from Apple.

Here's a link that demonstrates how to synthesize a touch event on the iPhone:

Here's another question on StackOverflow: How to send a touch event to iPhone OS?

Answer 2

It's worth pointing out the KIF framework here. It's intended to run in the simulator but part of the code is simulating touch evens in code. with luck, this will be a good starting point.

https://github.com/square/KIF

Specifically, look at stepToTapViewWithAccessibilityLabel in KIFTestStep.m and the line

[view tapAtPoint:tappablePointInElement];