Is there an existing app I can install that will record my touch interactions in the background? I just saw this and it made me want to play around with my touch data to see what it looked like. Didn't turn up any likely candidates here or in the Market. Google seemed to indicate that it is certainly doable if you write your own foreground app (which I have no interest in doing because I want to record my touches in the entire system), and that it might be possible using a custom-developed background app, which might be a fun project but I'd rather install an existing app if possible.
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I am the author of MacroDroid and I have some experimental (root only) features in development to do this but have not yet released anything in the public version. I have an action called "Launch and Press" that allows you to launch an app and record a series of touch events and they will then be played back at the same rate. Basic touch events work ok, but scrolling is handled very poorly. There is also the issue of device compatibility as I'm testing on a few devices but handling all devices may be problematic. I'll probably first introduce a more simplified action called touch screen which will just produce a single screen touch. By combining a sequence of touch events simple app navigation should be do-able. If you're interested in beta testing any of this please send an email to: support@macrodroid.com |
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2270795 Lol, I'm a little late, but here you go! |
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Check out my new app Tap Counter (by DenizenApps). It counts every time you touch your screen. |
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Check out the Screen Filter app on Market. Screen Filter lets you overlay the screen with a transparent layer so you can have a dimmer screen. This doesn't let you record, but I suspect that the same approach they are using to dim the screen could instead be used to capture touch data and record it. Might be worth looking into developing, depending on why you need such an application. |
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In Ice Cream Sandwich, I noticed a few cool features in the Developer options that are related to touches: Go to Settings -> Developer options. There is the Pointer location option. This shows an overlay of touch information such as coordinates and drag path. There is also Show touches, which shows where your touching the screen. The former might provide you some good information, but doesn't record the data for analysis later. The latter is more for when you're recording a video so it's clear where the user is touching. |
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AFAIK, based on the android sandbox security model, you can't track the screen touches when your application is not the active app. With that said, I have done some work (still in progress) on a PC based application that injects a jar on the device (has to be rooted) and from the PC I can send "touches" to the device, no matter what application is open. But, it is still using android code to send the touch events to the device. There is nothing in there for me to get the touch events from the device unless it is "my application" and i am capturing them as the user touches areas of my app. Once they exit or open another application and my app is not longer "on top", I am no longer capturing the touch events. As I said, I have done work on a "remote control" type app that runs on the PC, and I have toyed around with using my android device as a "touch pad" to control the mouse on my PC so I have done some research in to what you are talking about, and this was my findings. |
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