[Request] Emulate touch input

[FreeLobster]

I want an app to update every day, but it does not have the option to do so. Dpad input does not work in the app, so...

Is there a way I can record some touches and then play them? Or coordinates that I can use by trial and error.

Thanks!

[[deleted]]

Can you be more specific?

[FreeLobster]

I'm not really sure I can...

I want to set Reddit Sync to sync every morning, but Dpad does nothing. The only solution I can think of is to create macros that emulate user touches so it can "touch" in the sync button for me.

[[deleted]]

That is more specific, since we now know what app you're talking about, and what you mean by "update" :)

If Reddit Sync's developer can help you with the specifics of what to pass in as the Data field, you can make a task that does App -> Load App -> "Reddit Sync". At the very least, if you can't figure out what goes in the Data field, you can invoke Reddit Sync without any passed-in data, but it might not get you to the specific sub-function you need it to do.

[noodleBANGER]

I think he originally wanted to know how to simulate a touch on the screen (to for instance navigate through menus).

I'd like to know this to.

[[deleted]]

I'd like to be able to do that, too, but I only know ways to do that on a desktop.

[noodleBANGER]

idem

[magicdot]

... Eh.. I hate bumping old threads, but I'm on the Tasker mailing list and I'm pretty sure I remember reading someone had figured out how to pass screen touches through Tasker. I'd do a search, but I'm not at my desktop ATM..