Small middleware written as part of research into emulation detection. This functions similarly (according to their docs) to genymotions Device Link feature that lets you stream a real device's sensor data connected over ADB's into the emulators sensor data. Since Android studios emulator doesn't support this natively I wrote this up.
This uses SensorServer to stream live sensor data over adb and then feeds the data into the emulator using the android emulator console.
- ADB and other android tools
- Install SensorServer on your android device and enable the
local hostoption in the app. - python environment set up with websocket-client installed
- start the SensorServer app on your phone and start the server
- run
adb forward tcp:8080 tcp:8080on your machine that the device is connected to over USB - start your emulator(s) and keep note of the port number (usually defaults to 5554)
- if this is your first time connecting to the emulators console, I would first run
telnet localhost <emulatorport>and then make sure to delete the data in auth token located in.emulator_console_auth_tokenso that it's empty. Since this script doesn't support connecting with an auth token that is mandatory. - run
python sensorinject.py --port <emulator-port>and you should be streaming data! you can drop the--port <emulator-port>option if your port is 5554 since that is the default in the script.
NOTE: Since my device didn't support gyroscope, I fed in the
android.sensor.gravitysensor. You can modify the script depending on what sensors you do/don't have.
