nurdtechie98 / Watchman

Basic watcher service using android accessibility APIs

Watchman

A basic window watcher android accessibility sevice

Features

• Dismiss Application not responding (ANR) popups
• Extract text dump of all non application types windows visited

How to start watching

• Start

adb shell settings put secure enabled_accessibility_services com.nurdtechie98.watchman/com.nurdtechie98.watchman.Watcher

• Stop

adb shell am force-stop com.nurdtechie98.watchman

Extract dump file

adb shell cat /storage/emulated/0/Documents/watchman_dump.txt

Sample dump file

===========19700101T000000Asia/Kolkata(0,0,0,-1,-19800)===========
 Text: Cast screen to device  Content-Description: null
  Text: Searching for devices…  Content-Description: null
 Text: Settings  Content-Description: null
===========19700101T000000Asia/Kolkata(0,0,0,-1,-19800)===========
 Text: Cast screen to device  Content-Description: null
  Text: Searching for devices…  Content-Description: null
 Text: Settings  Content-Description: null