Imagine that I have a service that receives coordinates from a bluetooth device, now I want to display a mouse cursor whenever it moves.
I managed to send MotionEvents with a toolType = TOOL_TYPE_MOUSE but I don't get the native android mouse cursor displayed on screen.
The events I am sending look like these:
05-14 13:38:05.043: I/onTouchEvent(30301): MotionEvent { action=ACTION_DOWN, id[0]=0, x[0]=498.0, y[0]=996.0, toolType[0]=TOOL_TYPE_MOUSE, buttonState=0, metaState=0, flags=0x0, edgeFlags=0x0, pointerCount=1, historySize=0, eventTime=251957430, downTime=251957420, deviceId=1, source=0x2002 }
I am creating them like this:
public void moveMouse(int x, int y) {
// Obtain MotionEvent object
long downTime = SystemClock.uptimeMillis() - 10;
long eventTime = SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
int metaState = 0;
MotionEvent.PointerProperties p = new PointerProperties();
p.toolType = MotionEvent.TOOL_TYPE_MOUSE;
p.id = 0;
MotionEvent.PointerProperties[] properties = {p};
MotionEvent.PointerCoords c = new MotionEvent.PointerCoords();
c.x = x;
c.y = y;
c.orientation = 0f;
c.pressure = 1f;
c.size = 1f;
MotionEvent.PointerCoords[] coords = {c};
int buttonState = 0;
float precisionX = 1.0f;
float precisionY = 1.0f;
int deviceId = 1;
int edgeFlags = 0;
int flags = 0;
MotionEvent event;
event =
MotionEvent.obtain(downTime, eventTime, MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN, 1, properties,
coords, metaState, buttonState, precisionX, precisionY, deviceId,
edgeFlags, InputDevice.SOURCE_MOUSE, flags);
dispatchTouchEvent(event);
But I still can't see the mouse pointer. What am I doing wrong?