Android - Issue In Controlling Builtin App Using Robotium

I am writing an android testing application which automates testing on the device. I am targeting facebook as my base application and writing an app using the Robotium framework i

Solution 1:

I don't think you can do that. However you might be able to make your own modified version of the built-in application and use that instead (if you can make it default and so not have to go through a selection screen), or root a phone and break its security model to use as an automated testing device.

Solution 2:

You said

a layer between the OS and Robotium.

If you were ok with that, there is the black-box UIAutomator-Framework by google, which might be able to do that. Additionally,

You might want to use monkeyrunner like this:

$ monkeyrunner
>>>from com.android.monkeyrunner import MonkeyRunner, MonkeyDevice>>>device = MonkeyRunner.waitForConnection()>>>device.touch(200, 400, MonkeyDevice.DOWN_AND_UP)

You can also do a drag, start activies etc. Have a look at the api for MonkeyDevice.

(from this SO answer).