Android: How to create a MotionEvent?

Question

MotionEvent doesn\'t get a constructor, I wanted to manually create a MotionEvent in my unit test, then how to get that? Thanks.

Answer 1

You should use one of the static obtain methods of the MotionEvent class to create a new event.

The simplest way (besides wrapping a new event from an existing one) is:

static public MotionEvent obtain(long downTime, long eventTime, int action,
        float x, float y, int metaState) {

API Docs:

Create a new MotionEvent, filling in a subset of the basic motion values. Those not specified here are: device id (always 0), pressure and size (always 1), x and y precision (always 1), and edgeFlags (always 0).

Parameters:

• downTime The time (in ms) when the user originally pressed down to start a stream of position events. This must be obtained from SystemClock.uptimeMillis().
• eventTime The the time (in ms) when this specific event was generated. This must be obtained from SystemClock.uptimeMillis().
• action The kind of action being performed -- one of either ACTION_DOWN, ACTION_MOVE, ACTION_UP, or ACTION_CANCEL.
• x The X coordinate of this event.
• y The Y coordinate of this event.
• metaState The state of any meta / modifier keys that were in effect when the event was generated.

Link to API Docs