What is a touch pointer?

What is a touch pointer?

The touch pointer feature allows you to use a controller to perform touch operations like you would on a PS Vita system. To use the touch pointer, set a checkmark in [Use Touch Pointer in Games] on the screen that is displayed when you press and hold the PS button.

How do I enable show touches?

How to Show Touch Points on Android Devices

1. Open Settings and go to the Developer Options settings.
2. Under the Input settings, make sure the Show touches option is marked.
3. Now, touch the screen and as you can see a small white dot appears on where you touched the screen.

Is it possible to simulate touch without touch screen?

I have found that a touch anywhere on the screen also works as a select, so what I’m doing at the moment is opening the back, touching the screen and then closing it up again, but obviously that quickly gets tedious.

How can I reliably simulate touch events on Android?

As suggested, the best way to simulate touch events since Nougat (API 24) is by using an accessibility service and the AccessibilityService#dispatchGesture method. Here is how I did to simulate a single tap event.

How to simulate touch actions in keyword tests?

Simulating Touch Actions in Keyword Tests To simulate a touch at specific screen coordinates from keyword tests, use the Device Touch operation: To simulate long press, swipe and drag actions in keyword tests, call the appropriate methods of the Device object by using the Call Object Method, Run Code Snippet or Run Script Routine operations.

Is it possible to simulate touch without ADB?

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/20830258/2141741 (and if you want to connect the device to itself via ADB, https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=48126 and associated comments are informative). This solution doesn’t require root (at least not doing it from a computer connected over ADB).