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First and foremost command :

type : monkeyrunner

This will open up a interpreter. From then on its about how we interact; The document provided in android sdk site gives a brief idea on how this can be used.

http://developer.android.com/tools/help/monkeyrunner_concepts.html

I just created my first test case for the application : to verify if the Home address can be set. The steps we require are as follows, press 'Set Home' icon -> Acknowledge the dialog box -> Pick item from Search -> Save it to Home (will return to Home scree).

From where if the 'Home' icon pressed will begin navigating. 

For the whole sequence to execute, we just use the 

If you had never heard of this tool, your life is turning better now. Monkey is a simple tool which allow to generate pseudo-random gestures, on a device or on an emulator. Shortly, you can in a few seconds simulate a user using your application, but a pretty stupid one (just as all users ?) because all his actions will be generated randomly. These actions won’t make any sense, but the aim here is to detect bugs in your app, and this can be very useful.

Note 1: This is absolutely not a substitute to other tests you should do (like unit tests…). Do what I say, not what I do :p

Note 2: For this tut, I suppose you have one emulator or a device connected in debug mode (with ADB drivers installed). I won’t detail this part.

Here we go, launching cmd, and browsing to [android-sdk-path]**/platform-tools.The basic command to use monkey is the following:

adb shell monkey <options>

For example, if your application package is com.myapp and you want to generate 1000 gestures, with a delay of 500ms between each event, you have to use this command:

adb shell monkey -p com.myapp --throttle 500 -v 1000

Going further…

If you want to go one step further, you can automate a lot of things ,like the installation on the device, the launch, screenshots, etc. with the monkeyrunner tool

Set benchmarks, but sometime we need to compromise.