How to use android monkey

Question

I am a little confused on how to actually use monkey, i thought you were supposed to power on your emulator and go into terminal editor and type:

$ adb shell monkey -p insert.my.package.name.here -v 500

since that did not work (error, adb: permission denied)

i tried monkey -p insert.blah.blah -v 500 and this comes up that it has been killed, what am I doing wrong?

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 26 '11 at 01:52

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It's probably trying to talk to a device over your USB port.

You probably just need to add an -e in there to tell adb to connect to the emulator:

$ adb shell monkey -p insert.my.package.name.here -v 500

(Or -s serialnum if you have more than one emulator running.)

See Directing commands in the ADB docs.

answered Oct 26 '11 at 01:52

tangentstorm

Thank you for your response, my actual problem was that i was using the terminal editor right on the emulator itself i didn't think you would have to run it through command prompt aswell – Demonicpenguin Oct 26 '11 at 03:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 16 '18 at 15:11

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It's well explained here:

it's a tool for testing apps, and the port indicates which porto to connect (binds to localhost) to issue remote commands

answered Jul 16 '18 at 15:11

Zibri

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