For security reasons, applications are not allowed to get screen shots of the display or inject key events in to other applications.
On Sep 11, 3:48 am, "Malcolm Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I hope this isn't a stupid question, but I've looked through the API > reference and can't seem to find what I'm looking for.. > > Basically I am wondering if there is any way to, from a background > application, save the current contents of the screen as a Bitmap, and > if there is a way to inject keypresses into the current running > application (again, with a background application doing the > injecting). I notice there are constants called "INJECT_EVENTS" and > "READ_FRAME_BUFFER" in the android.Manifest.permisssion class, which > sound like the facility is available to do what I need, but I can't > see where in the main API you can perform these tasks. Can anyone > point me in the right direction, or are these constants part of the > internals of android, and so not available for regular apps to use? > > If anyone is familiar with RIM's Blackberry API, then essentially I am > looking for an equivalent to their method Display.screenshot() and to > the class EventInjector, plus its various inner classes. > > Thanks in advance! > > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
