Test scripting with monkeyrunner
The possibilities of monkey are fairly limited, and the lack of flow control restricts its use to very simple cases.To circumvent these limitations, a new project was created, which was named monkeyrunner. Notwithstanding this, the name is almost the same and leads to a huge amount of confusion because they are not related in any way.
Monkeyrunner, which is already included in the latest versions of the Android SDK, is a tool that provides an API for the purpose of writing scripts that externally control an Android device or emulator.
Monkeyrunner is built on top of Jython (http://jython.org/), a version of the Python programming language (http://python.org/), which is designed to run on the Java platform.
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