Faster android input tap command

Question

I'm trying to run fast input tap commands one after another, but they run with 1 second between them. I'm wondering if there is an option to run them faster.

Answer 1

input is a java application and the "delay" you're seeing depends on how long it takes for your device to start a new java app. 1s is typical for older devices.

You can not do much about it if you want to keep using input . The alternatives to that would be either using sendevent command or modifying input to accept series of coordinates for sending the whole gesture at once.

Answer 2

While sendevent is certainly an alternative, it's cumbersome and device dependent.

Another alternative exists: CulebraTester CulebraTester provides a real-time point and click test recording through a web browser. This browser is connected to the Android device under test. The generated script is compatible with AndroidViewClient/culebra , which you may know already. The main deviation between both solutions is the use of a different back-end. AndroidViewClient/culebra normally uses adb as its back-end in most of the cases while CulebraTester uses a server running on the device backed by Ui Automator .

This test script. which was automatically generated by CulebraTester

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
'''
Copyright (C) 2013-2018  Diego Torres Milano
Created on 2018-02-06 by CulebraTester 
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@author: Diego Torres Milano
@author: Jennifer E. Swofford (ascii art snake)
'''


import re
import sys
import os
import time

import unittest
try:
    sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.environ['ANDROID_VIEW_CLIENT_HOME'], 'src'))
except:
    pass

import pkg_resources
pkg_resources.require('androidviewclient>=12.4.0')
from com.dtmilano.android.viewclient import ViewClient, CulebraTestCase
from com.dtmilano.android.uiautomator.uiautomatorhelper import UiAutomatorHelper, UiScrollable, UiObject, UiObject2

TAG = 'CULEBRA'

class CulebraTests(CulebraTestCase):

    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls):
        cls.kwargs1 = {'ignoreversioncheck': False, 'verbose': True, 'ignoresecuredevice': False}
        cls.kwargs2 = {'forceviewserveruse': False, 'useuiautomatorhelper': True, 'ignoreuiautomatorkilled': True, 'autodump': False, 'startviewserver': True, 'compresseddump': True}
        cls.options = {'start-activity': None, 'concertina': False, 'device-art': None, 'use-jar': False, 'multi-device': False, 'unit-test-class': True, 'save-screenshot': None, 'use-dictionary': False, 'glare': False, 'dictionary-keys-from': 'id', 'scale': 1, 'find-views-with-content-description': True, 'window': -1, 'orientation-locked': None, 'save-view-screenshots': None, 'find-views-by-id': True, 'log-actions': False, 'use-regexps': False, 'null-back-end': False, 'auto-regexps': None, 'do-not-verify-screen-dump': True, 'verbose-comments': False, 'gui': False, 'find-views-with-text': True, 'prepend-to-sys-path': False, 'install-apk': None, 'drop-shadow': False, 'output': None, 'unit-test-method': None, 'interactive': False}
        cls.sleep = 5

    def setUp(self):
        super(CulebraTests, self).setUp()

    def tearDown(self):
        super(CulebraTests, self).tearDown()

    def preconditions(self):
        if not super(CulebraTests, self).preconditions():
            return False
        return True

    def testSomething(self):
        if not self.preconditions():
            self.fail('Preconditions failed')

        _s = CulebraTests.sleep
        _v = CulebraTests.verbose

        t = time.time()
        for _ in range(100):
            self.vc.click(x=321, y=996)
        print (time.time() - t)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    CulebraTests.main()

Only the timed loop sending 100 click events was added. Running it shows how delay can be improved using this method.

Answer 3

Like @ThomasW mentioned, the monkeyrunner tool is able to automate taps very quickly (faster than my app will recognize them). Once you start it up (taking a couple seconds), the touch function is basically instant:

from com.android.monkeyrunner import MonkeyRunner, MonkeyDevice
device = MonkeyRunner.waitForConnection()
for i in range(1, 10000):
    device.touch(x, y, 'DOWN_AND_UP')