Simulate Back Press

[chadw...@gmail.com]

Is there a way to simulate button presses like home, menu, back, or
search?

Whenever I plug in my phone, I turn on a battery icon in the
notification tray. When it loads, a menu pops up. What I want to have
happen is either have that pop up screen not happen somehow or let me
use a variable to wait till that menu pops up then simulate the back
keypress wherein the menu goes away, etc.

I know I can set a variable to go home, however that wouldn't be
ideal. I just want to simulate the back press.

[Pent]

> Is there a way to simulate button presses like home, menu, back, or
> search?

No, Android won't allow it for security reasons.

> Whenever I plug in my phone, I turn on a battery icon in the
> notification tray. When it loads, a menu pops up.

From where ? Caused by what ?

Pent

[chadw...@gmail.com]

> > From where ? Caused by what ?

I'm sorry, should've been more specific. The app Battery Indicator has
a menu that pops up that I just ignore every time. That's why I wanted
a way to just ignore that Battery Indicator menu every time the app
loads using Tasker. Go Home is my current, but not ideal solution.

I was thinking the best scenario would be having a variable that says
when Battery Indicator is the foreground app and it's menu comes up,
then have Tasker have a variable that goes to the last open
application before Battery Indicator was open.

[SHADOW-XIII]

How about killing that strange "battery indicator"... it's not default
android app, isn't it ?

On Aug 8, 6:09 pm, "chadwel...@gmail.com" <chadwel...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[tychadwell]

not using the app doesn't sound like a solution to my problem...

The app shows a numeric value of the battery in the notification bar
which is really helpful to know when the phone is plugged in.

[SHADOW-XIII]

I think you can achieve similar notification using tasker ;)

[BossMan]

Actually Pent, I think this might be possible (or at least it was),
similarilly to answering/rejecting calls:

http://mylifewithandroid.blogspot.com/2009/01/generating-keypresses-programmatically.html
http://davanum.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/android-simulate-key-strokes/
http://code.google.com/p/teddsdroidtools/source/browse/trunk/teddsdroidtools/src/tss/droidtools/phone/CallAnswerActivity.java

http://www.kiwidoc.com/java/l/x/android/android/5/p/android.view/c/IWindowManager#injectKeyEvent%28Landroid%2Fview%2FKeyEvent%3BZ%29

Maybe you should have a look, it looks interesting as well :-)

BR,
A.