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bukzor

Reputation: 38462

Android: UIAutomator in a production app?

Is there anything that would prevent me from using UIAutomator in the implementation of an app released to the Android app store?

My goal is to automate some simple user interaction of a third party's app from my app. This requires introspection of, and interaction with third party apps. From my (limited) research, UIAutomator is the most general purpose way to accomplish this type of task.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 902

Answers (1)

CommonsWare
CommonsWare

Reputation: 1006869

Is there anything that would prevent me from using UIAutomator in the implementation of an app released to the Android app store?

Well, there's the fact that it will not work, except perhaps on rooted devices.

My goal is to automate some simple user interaction of a third party's app from my app. This requires introspection of, and interaction with third party apps.

Fortunately, this is not possible in general, for obvious security reasons (e.g., automatically bypassing security dialogs).

Upvotes: 1

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