androidgoogle-glassgoogle-gdk

Simulate Touch Controls Through Code

I'm trying to make it possible to navigate through my Google Glass application by using head gestures. I'm able to recognize head gestures like looking to the right left and up. They each have their own method for what to do when this gesture is recognized

Now I need to simulate the corresponding touch gestures inside each method. So it will think I'm swiping to the left or right which will allow me to navigate through the cards with the head gestures.

Does anyone have any idea on how to actually achieve this?

Edit

I created a quick hello world application to play with. I added my headgesture code and started trying to get the keys working.

I added the following to my onCreate()

Instrumentation instr = new Instrumentation();

Then I added the following lines to each respective headgesture method.

They are responding accordingly now, however I'm getting an exception saying:

 java.lang.RuntimeException: This method can not be called from the main application thread
Solution

  • The Solution

    In the end I went a different direction then the one I mentioned in my edit above.

    I found out that it is possible to call touch controls in the shell by using

    adb shell input keyevent <keycode here>

    I then found a way to use this in android, I have the following class named issueKey

    public class issueKey {
public void issueKey(int keyCode)
{
    try {
        java.lang.Process p = java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime().exec("input keyevent " + Integer.toString(keyCode) + "\n");
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.wtf("IssueKeyError", e.getMessage());
    }
}
}

    Then I simply call the class and pass the keycode for the corresponding gesture

    mIssueKey.issueKey(4);//functions as swipe down

    Here is the list of keycodes that I tested for anyone that is interested.

    Keys for each respective button/gesture

    However, what I'm wondering now is. What would be best practice, getting the solution I metioned in my edit to work by using a asyncTask or is the solution I'm currently using better.