How to prevent monkey to open status bar?

Question

I want to use android's monkey for stress test my app but monkey opens status bar and changes settings on my phone.

To start monkey I use:

 adb -s S5660a19e722f shell monkey -p com.lmmx.app -v -v -v 10000 --throttle 500

I thought that -p com.lmmx.app parameter must prevent this... I use 2.3.5 and 2.3.6 phones for testing.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

score 20 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 22 '16 at 02:19

20

I have a 5.0(lollipop) phone and was able to do this with screen pinning

From there you can run monkey on your device without it changing.

edited Sep 22 '16 at 02:19

einverne

answered Feb 02 '15 at 04:00

user3044482

Nice solution without if(monkey) checks! – patrick.elmquist Jun 14 '17 at 10:45
This is the way to go! :) – Pär Nils Amsen Jun 16 '17 at 15:06
This is a nice solution, but do you know how to unpin application on emulator? You have to hold press back and overview buttons *at the same time*...? edit: NVM, you have to [restart emulator](https://stackoverflow.com/a/27440692/1906123) – bagage Oct 19 '17 at 13:16

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 19 '15 at 09:47

3

I just created an app that will mask the status bar for the exact same purpose.

It just adds a system overlay over the status bar, preventing anyone from accessing the status bar.

You can check it out here : github sources

It works great for our monkey tests, especially on launcher apps.

Feel free to use it. If you want to directly download an apk you can find it here

answered May 19 '15 at 09:47

ArnaudR

Your app not work on android Oreo and newer. Do you know some other solution? Thanks – Michael Drdlíček Jan 25 '19 at 10:09

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 15 '15 at 20:01

2

You can hide status bar in code use isUserAMonkey ()

if(ActivityManager.isUserAMonkey()){
//your code
}

Setup Monkey to ignore or prevent status bar is impossible because you can't limit some area on screen or disable some function in Monkey keys.

edited Dec 15 '15 at 20:01

Andy

answered Dec 15 '15 at 19:59

RebOOter

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