Instrumentation

If included in the status or final bundle sent to an IInstrumentationWatcher, this key identifies the class that is writing the report. This can be used to provide more structured logging or reporting capabilities in the IInstrumentationWatcher.

If included in the status or final bundle sent to an IInstrumentationWatcher, this key identifies a string which can simply be printed to the output stream. Using these streams provides a "pretty printer" version of the status & final packets. Any bundles including this key should also include the complete set of raw key/value pairs, so that the instrumentation can also be launched, and results collected, by an automated system.

A convenience wrapper for addMonitor(ActivityMonitor) that creates an intent filter matching Instrumentation.ActivityMonitor for you and returns it.

Add a new Instrumentation.ActivityMonitor that will be checked whenever an activity is started. The monitor is added after any existing ones; the monitor will be hit only if none of the existing monitors can themselves handle the Intent.

A convenience wrapper for addMonitor(ActivityMonitor) that creates a class matching Instrumentation.ActivityMonitor for you and returns it.

Perform calling of an activity's onCreate(Bundle) method. The default implementation simply calls through to that method.

Perform calling of an activity's onCreate(Bundle) method. The default implementation simply calls through to that method.

Perform calling of an activity's onNewIntent(Intent) method. The default implementation simply calls through to that method.

Perform calling of an activity's onPause() method. The default implementation simply calls through to that method.

Perform calling of an activity's onPostCreate(Bundle) method. The default implementation simply calls through to that method.

Perform calling of an activity's onPostCreate(Bundle) method. The default implementation simply calls through to that method.

Perform calling of an activity's onRestart() method. The default implementation simply calls through to that method.

Perform calling of an activity's onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle) method. The default implementation simply calls through to that method.

Perform calling of an activity's onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle) method. The default implementation simply calls through to that method.

Perform calling of an activity's onResume() method. The default implementation simply calls through to that method.

Perform calling of an activity's onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) method. The default implementation simply calls through to that method.

Perform calling of an activity's onSaveInstanceState(Bundle) method. The default implementation simply calls through to that method.

Perform calling of an activity's onStart() method. The default implementation simply calls through to that method.

Perform calling of an activity's onStop() method. The default implementation simply calls through to that method.

Perform calling of an activity's onUserLeaveHint() method. The default implementation simply calls through to that method.

Perform calling of the application's onCreate() method. The default implementation simply calls through to that method.

Note: This method will be called immediately after onCreate(Bundle). Often instrumentation tests start their test thread in onCreate(); you need to be careful of races between these. (Well between it and everything else, but let's start here.)

Test whether an existing Instrumentation.ActivityMonitor has been hit. If the monitor has been hit at least minHits times, then it will be removed from the activity monitor list and true returned. Otherwise it is left as-is and false is returned.

Terminate instrumentation of the application. This will cause the application process to exit, removing this instrumentation from the next time the application is started.

Returns a bundle with the current results from the allocation counting.

Returns a bundle with the counts for various binder counts for this process. Currently the only two that are reported are the number of send and the number of received transactions.

Returns complete component name of this instrumentation.

Return the Context of this instrumentation's package. Note that this is often different than the Context of the application being instrumentated, since the instrumentation code often lives is a different package than that of the application it is running against. See getTargetContext() to retrieve a Context for the target application.

Return a Context for the target application being instrumented. Note that this is often different than the Context of the instrumentation code, since the instrumentation code often lives is a different package than that of the application it is running against. See getContext() to retrieve a Context for the instrumentation code.

Gets the UiAutomation instance.

Note: The APIs exposed via the returned UiAutomation work across application boundaries while the APIs exposed by the instrumentation do not. For example, sendPointerSync(MotionEvent) will not allow you to inject the event in an app different from the instrumentation target, while injectInputEvent(android.view.InputEvent, boolean) will work regardless of the current application.

A typical test case should be using either the UiAutomation or Instrumentation APIs. Using both APIs at the same time is not a mistake by itself but a client has to be aware of the APIs limitations.

Show the context menu for the currently focused view and executes a particular context menu item.

Execute a particular menu item.

Check whether this instrumentation was started with profiling enabled.

Perform instantiation of the process's Activity object. The default implementation provides the normal system behavior.

Perform instantiation of an Activity object. This method is intended for use with unit tests, such as android.test.ActivityUnitTestCase. The activity will be useable locally but will be missing some of the linkages necessary for use within the sytem.

Perform instantiation of the process's Application object. The default implementation provides the normal system behavior.

Perform instantiation of the process's Application object. The default implementation provides the normal system behavior.

Called when the instrumentation is starting, before any application code has been loaded. Usually this will be implemented to simply call start() to begin the instrumentation thread, which will then continue execution in onStart().

If you do not need your own thread -- that is you are writing your instrumentation to be completely asynchronous (returning to the event loop so that the application can run), you can simply begin your instrumentation here, for example call startActivity(Intent) to begin the appropriate first activity of the application.

Called when the instrumented application is stopping, after all of the normal application cleanup has occurred.

This is called whenever the system captures an unhandled exception that was thrown by the application. The default implementation simply returns false, allowing normal system handling of the exception to take place.

Method where the instrumentation thread enters execution. This allows you to run your instrumentation code in a separate thread than the application, so that it can perform blocking operation such as sendKeySync(KeyEvent) or startActivitySync(Intent).

You will typically want to call finish() when this function is done, to end your instrumentation.

Remove an Instrumentation.ActivityMonitor that was previously added with addMonitor(Instrumentation.ActivityMonitor).

Execute a call on the application's main thread, blocking until it is complete. Useful for doing things that are not thread-safe, such as looking at or modifying the view hierarchy.

Higher-level method for sending both the down and up key events for a particular character key code. Equivalent to creating both KeyEvent objects by hand and calling sendKeySync(KeyEvent). The event appears as if it came from keyboard 0, the built in one.

Sends an up and down key event sync to the currently focused window.

Send a key event to the currently focused window/view and wait for it to be processed. Finished at some point after the recipient has returned from its event processing, though it may not have completely finished reacting from the event -- for example, if it needs to update its display as a result, it may still be in the process of doing that.

Dispatch a pointer event. Finished at some point after the recipient has returned from its event processing, though it may not have completely finished reacting from the event -- for example, if it needs to update its display as a result, it may still be in the process of doing that.

Provide a status report about the application.

Sends the key events corresponding to the text to the app being instrumented.

Dispatch a trackball event. Finished at some point after the recipient has returned from its event processing, though it may not have completely finished reacting from the event -- for example, if it needs to update its display as a result, it may still be in the process of doing that.

Force the global system in or out of touch mode. This can be used if your instrumentation relies on the UI being in one more or the other when it starts.

Create and start a new thread in which to run instrumentation. This new thread will call to onStart() where you can implement the instrumentation.

Start a new activity and wait for it to begin running before returning. In addition to being synchronous, this method as some semantic differences from the standard startActivity(Intent) call: the activity component is resolved before talking with the activity manager (its class name is specified in the Intent that this method ultimately starts), and it does not allow you to start activities that run in a different process. In addition, if the given Intent resolves to multiple activities, instead of displaying a dialog for the user to select an activity, an exception will be thrown.

The function returns as soon as the activity goes idle following the call to its onCreate(Bundle). Generally this means it has gone through the full initialization including onResume() and drawn and displayed its initial window.

This method will start profiling if isProfiling() returns true. You should only call this method if you set the handleProfiling attribute in the manifest file for this Instrumentation to true.

Stops profiling if isProfiling() returns true.

Schedule a callback for when the application's main thread goes idle (has no more events to process).

Synchronously wait for the application to be idle. Can not be called from the main application thread -- use start() to execute instrumentation in its own thread.

Wait for an existing Instrumentation.ActivityMonitor to be hit. Once the monitor has been hit, it is removed from the activity monitor list and the first created Activity object that matched it is returned.

Wait for an existing Instrumentation.ActivityMonitor to be hit till the timeout expires. Once the monitor has been hit, it is removed from the activity monitor list and the first created Activity object that matched it is returned. If the timeout expires, a null object is returned.