Getting reliable xy position on screen
John T. Haggerty
I'm curious about how to get correct excellent position on the screen. Love the way that current developer options for a show XY position as it seems to be geared towards being able to only get the delta of the XY position. I have tried also to look up an application that would provide this functionality on Android as a 3rd party program or a widget or some sort of facility and image program however at this point I'm not seeing a way to do that. I noticed that Tasker has input tap XY as a way to be able to get this in turn it on the screen but I'm unable to see if the position I entered was correct.
It seems that I am not using the correct search terms or there is a bigger problem at work here as it looks like only way to get this is to right straight up Java to get the answer is there a way that other people have got to get this reliably and quickly? Is there something I'm overlooking ( most likely yes) ? At this point after 2 hours of looking up 15 different versions of this I'm at my wits end!
Rich D
> I'm curious about how to get correct excellent position on the screen.
Could you explain a bit more of what you are looking to do? There are a few apps out there and the developer option that allow you to tap on the screen and it will give you the x,y coordinates.
John T. Haggerty
What I am looking to do is to be able to have a floating widget or status indicator on the screen that would allow me to get the exact X & Y coordinates that could then be fed into yeast input tap feature to replicate a tap on the screen I am actually using a program that works with entering Web data into a form and this program being scripted by A process for recording that and no matter how hard I try to make things accurate location of attempts and manually entering are not translating correctly the exact location of the form data.
> I'm curious about how to get correct excellent position on the screen.
Could you explain a bit more of what you are looking to do? There are a few apps out there and the developer option that allow you to tap on the screen and it will give you the x,y coordinates.
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Rich D
What I am looking to do is to be able to have a floating widget or status indicator on the screen that would allow me to get the exact X & Y coordinates
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John T. Haggerty
How do you do it manually exactly to allow that to work all I was getting were Delta values. What part of the screen has the start of the coordinate axis? What about a way to turn on monitoring of clicks that can be saved to disk then use the values reported?
Rich D
> How do you do it manually exactly to allow that to work all I was getting were Delta values.
It had been a while since I used the developer options. I forgot it gave a nice overlay. On My device With the Developer options / Pointer location it gives a overlay with a x and y cross hairs. Up the top there is a very small display that will give the x and y coordinates whenever i tap and hold a position on the display. If I continue to hold on the screen and drag across the screen it update the x and y coordinates as I drag. The only time I get the Delta is when I lift my finger off the screen. So you either need to remember the x y coordinates or write them down with the other hand before lifting your finger off the screen.
The app I have used is called Touch Test. It does not work with a overlay. It just gives a blank screen and shows the xy coordinates of any touch. This one will continue to show the x y coordinates and does not show the delta.
John T. Haggerty
You know I think this is the case of me being so tight that I'm loose.
I actually tried doing what you said and it looks like actually when you press down and keep holding down the touch point does actually maintain a fixed x and y coordinate and it didn't disappear so that was a feature that I will look into more. Now I just have to figure out a way to touch the coordinate without it actually activating touch before I can record it.
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Rich D
. Now I just have to figure out a way to touch the coordinate without it actually activating touch before I can record it.
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Not sure what you mean by that? Doesn't the overlay and coordinates survive whatever action you are touching?