Make complex touch event on Android using monkeyrunner

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You can control Android device simply using monkeyrunner.
But, because it supports only simple DRAG command which just drag from one point to other point in specific speed, users couldn't reproduce real people's complex(e.g., drawing complex picture or remove app icon from home screen) touch event.

So, I modified monkeyrunner to provide MOVE event and contributed the code to AOSP. It merged soon.
(https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/50991/)

After that, one day, one guy asked about how the feature can be used on stackoverflow and sent mail about that to me.
(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18161416/android-monkey-runner-touch-with-move)

So, I made and shared a simple example code for that question. I think it would be better to share it here, too.

	#!/usr/bin/env monkeyrunner
	import time
	from com.android.monkeyrunner import MonkeyRunner, MonkeyDevice
	device = MonkeyRunner.waitForConnection()
	# Touch down screen
	device.touch(100, 500, MonkeyDevice.DOWN)
	# Move from 100, 500 to 300, 500
	for i in range(1, 11):
	device.touch(100 + 20 * i, 500, MonkeyDevice.MOVE)
	print "move ", 100 + 20 * i, 500
	time.sleep(0.1)
	# Move from (300, 500 to 200, 500)
	for i in range(1, 11):
	device.touch(300, 500 - 10 * i, MonkeyDevice.MOVE)
	print "move ", 300, 500 - 10 * i
	time.sleep(0.1)
	# Remove finger from screen
	device.touch(300, 400, MonkeyDevice.UP)

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Just use the type MOVE like DOWN, UP as argument inside touch function call.
Hope it can be helpful to someone ;)