programmatically execute Touch event in android

Question

Can we execute touch event programmatically in android by some method, such as passing screen co-ordinates(x,y)? Is there any such method? Please guide me.

Answer 1

I am not sure if it works, but try this:

MotionEvent event = MotionEvent.obtain(downTime, eventTime, action, 
                                       x, y, pressure, size, 
                                       metaState, xPrecision, yPrecision, 
                                       deviceId, edgeFlags);
onTouchEvent(event);

Answer 2

You could call

View.onTouchEvent (MotionEvent)

when you know the destination

When you want to address some child or grand-child,

View.dispatchTouchEvent (MotionEvent)

is better

However, you have to supply an self crafted motion event. The MotionEvent holds the coordinates, too.

Answer 3

You can try using dispatchTouchEvent and give it MotionEvent instance like below

dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent.obtain(downTime, eventTime, action, x, y, pressure, size, metaState, xPrecision, yPrecision, deviceId, edgeFlags))

you can find more help in this link

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#dispatchTouchEvent%28android.view.MotionEvent%29

Answer 4

There is a special method for this:

View.performClick()