What it is ?

a tool to record/replay input event for android platform, automated testing will be easier.

Installation

• Install from binary

  Downalod ZIP and run bin/install.bat

• Install from source

  $ git clone https://github.com/TUSSON/android-event-recorder.git
  $ cd android-event-recorder
  $ mm
  $ croot && adb push out/target/product/$(TARGET_PRODUCT)/system/bin/eventrec system/bin/
  $ adb shell chmod u+x system/bin/eventrec
  

Problems

1. adbd cannot run as root in production builds

Push eventrec to tmp directory, run cmd with full path.

adb push eventrec /data/local/tmp/
adb chmod u+x /data/local/tmp/eventrec
adb shell /data/local/tmp/eventrec

Usage

• record input event

  $ adb shell eventrec /data/local/tmp/record_test.txt
  

  ctrl-c to stop it.

• replay input event

  $ adb shell eventrec /data/local/tmp/record_test.txt -p
  

Help

$ adb shell eventrec
Android event record/palyback utility - $Revision: 1.1 $

Usage：./eventrec -r|p [-c count] [-d second] <event_record.txt>

-r|p                 Record or replay events  (default record)

-c count             Repeat count for replay

-d min_sec[,max_sec] Delay for everytime replay start (default 1.0)
                     If the minimum and maximum values of the delay
                     are provided, the delay is random.

Example of event_record.txt:
[   20897.702414] /dev/input/event1: 0003 0035 000000b1
[   20897.702414] /dev/input/event1: 0000 0000 00000000