How do I stop the monkey madness?

Question

I\'m using the monkey tool to run a test of my Android application. For example, I might do a run like the following:

adb shell monkey -p com.myapp -v 10000         


        

Answer 1

adb shell
ps | grep monkey
kill process_id

Answer 2

For what it's worth, I use Android Studio 3.1.4 on a Mac in 2018 and I had to alter the accepted answer like so:

./adb shell ps | awk '/com\.android\.commands\.monkey/ { system("./adb shell kill " $2) }'

Hope that help prevent some hair-pulling and pencil snapping out there!

Also... when it comes to the monkey, always be sure to pin your app!!! Otherwise you might accidentally send all your selfies to a random email in China like I did. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Answer 3

[Nitpick] You're confusing monkeyrunner with monkey.

The monkeyrunner tool is not related to the UI/Application Exerciser Monkey, also known as the monkey tool. The monkey tool runs in an adb shell directly on the device or emulator and generates pseudo-random streams of user and system events. In comparison, the monkeyrunner tool controls devices and emulators from a workstation by sending specific commands and events from an API.

[/Nitpick]

On my Android 2.2 device when I start monkey, I see a process started in DDMS by the name "?" (just a question mark). When I killed that process, the monkey madness stopped.

Answer 4

adb shell kill $(adb shell pgrep monkey)

kudo to @deadfish

Answer 5

You can kill the monkey process just doing this:

$ adb shell ps | awk '/com\.android\.commands\.monkey/ { system("adb shell kill " $2) }'