How to emulate step counter sensor in the Android devices?

Question

I want to emulate user's walking and count their steps for auto testing.

I tried to search for the solution, but only found simulate the location.

Solution

It's pretty easy since in reality this sensor returns a float number describing the number of steps taken by the user since the last reboot while activated.

So that the easiest implementation will include a method which generates just a random float within some realistic constraints (between 1 and 9999 steps):

public float generateStepsCount(){
        float minVal = 1.0f;
        float maxVal = 9999.0f;

        Random rand = new Random();

        return rand.nextFloat() * (maxVal - minVal) + minVal;
    }

PS: TYPE_STEP_COUNTER has been there since API 19.

Comments

[Joaquin Iurchuk]

Interesting... I'd like to remark that this method was introduced on API 19

[alwaysday1]

@ViktorMalyi thanks for your answer. I know we can mock the counter sensor's return number. But what I need is I want to change the value which was stored in the real sensor devices.

[Viktor Malyi]

@liweijian just get it and then modify: mSensorManager = (SensorManager) getSystemService(SENSOR_SERVICE); mStepCounter = mSensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_STEP_COUNTER);

[alwaysday1]

@ViktorMalyi Actually what I need is to simulate the users' walking, and send some signals to the sensor hub and tell it to update the steps' count.

[Rujoota Shah]

@lit2019 I am facing similar issue... Did you find a way to solve this?

[alwaysday1]

@RujootaShah Sorry, I am not working on this issue either.

[Ludde]

Make sure to enable the android.permission.ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION in API 29.

[hema ezzat]

is there an actual repo or a software that already simulate? I found a repo called sensorsimulator on github but it was from 10 years ago and it has so many issues