Feature request: Keyboard input

[capnfabs]

Is there any interest in implementing keyboard input support? i.e. typing on the mac and having the equivalent keystrokes run on the Android device?

adb supports this using adb shell input keyevent. I'd be happy to do the implementation work on this at some stage in the future if there's interest.

[mortenjust]

That's interesting. What's an example of a use case where you which you had this?

[capnfabs]

I'm testing an Android tablet app that requires a lot of form filling. It's a lot easier to continue typing on my laptop than switch to tapping away on a touchscreen, to then switch back and make code changes if something's not working. Admittedly, it does sound like a bit of a niche use case :)

[mortenjust]

Niche use case just might be fine as long as we can find a niche place for it in the UI. Any ideas? Could this be solved with a user script in the plus menu?

[capnfabs]

I thought about a userscript, but I think we'd actually need UI in order to capture the keystrokes, right? I haven't thought of an elegant way to do that yet.

[Partysun]

@mortenjust It's an awesome feature for react-native workflow. 👍

[capnfabs]

@Partysun what makes it an awesome feature when working with react-native?

[Partysun]

React-native gives a fast preview of UI changes. And if you use react-native you can reload your view. You can see this in react-native docs: link

You can also install Frappé, a tool for OS X, which allows you to emulate shaking of devices remotely. You can use ⌘ + Shift + R as a shortcut to trigger a shake from Frappé.

I have connected two emulators and one real device in my developing workflow. Sometimes I want to reload view, and I shake the phone and click the button, or use adb, or use Frappe to trigger a shake and click button action.