capturing another activity's screen in android

Question

is it possible to have a service (A) which will launch an activity (B) and then periodically capture B's screen?

also, is it possible to send onTouch events from A to B?

basically, i'd like to make a bot which would use an application so i don't have to.

i guess it's not possible but had to ask.

Answer 1

You can't do that across Activitys but you could create a view that held the Activity that you want to automate. Then periodically you can grab the ViewDecorator and do some processing on it and then inject touch events.