Category: Android
Android says “Waiting For Debugger” even when not debugging
I ran into this problem recently and was pleased to find a quick fix, courtesy of this comment by Itay Lev on StackOverflow. If you’re deploying an Android application and it says “Waiting For Debugger”, despite not running in Debug mode, open up a terminal/command prompt and run: This will clear the currently set debug…
Understanding Android’s Monkey Tool
The Monkey tool included as part of the Android operating system provides an effective way to stress test your application (and the Android OS itself) in a random but repeatable fashion. That is, the Monkey tool will generate a pseudo-random series of inputs based on a seed; if you run the Monkey tool again with…
Scripting the Android Monkey Tool
The Android Monkey tool produces a pseudo-random stream of inputs, according to the configured parameters. Because of it’s ability to stream inputs to an Android device, the same tool can be used to stream a series of predetermined inputs. This produces a similar effect to the monkeyrunner tool or UI Automator APIs, but does not…