Building a Basic Android Bot

Thu, 14 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Last week I started playing a new game on my phone called Castle Crash. I don’t play often play video games but when I do, I play them obsesively until they are defeated. In this case you can’t beat the game since you are playing against the internet so I decided to tap out and let my computer take over.

MonkeyRunner

Android has a great tool for writing simple automated tests on a device called MonkeyRunner. It uses Jython to let you write Python scripts that simulate user interactions and events on your device. MonkeyRunner can be found in the tool directoy after you have installed the Android SDK.

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Building a Basic Android Bot

MonkeyRunner