How to Automate Taps and Swipes on Android with MacroDroid?

You can automate all kinds of things with Android, even physical taps and gestures with certain applications.

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Video Description
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I received a comment recently asking if I could create a video about automating both taps and swipes within an application.
This process can be rather complex, but after doing some tests, I found a great way this can be done and can easily show you how.

This process does not require root access, but it does mean that you need to install the application MacroDroid.
It's free in the Google Play Store, but it does require some accessibility permissions in order to activate those taps and swipes for you.


Setting up MacroDroid to Automate Taps
This automation app may seem daunting at first, but I feel the user interface is much easier to understand than something like Tasker.
Once the app has been installed, open it up and then tap on the Macros tab.
You will see a floating + button here, tap on it so we can create an automated macro.

The trigger can be one of many different things.
To make things easy, we can set it up so that this macro will be executed once an application has been opened.
hence, this will be known as the trigger.

but again, this can be all sorts of things like a certain time of day, the press of a quick settings button, etc. there's a lot of things here so browse until you find something that works will with your macro

Now we're going to setup the action for this automation
And we'll be selecting the UI Interaction option

We're going to tap on Click from this menu here
Now, MacroDroid wants to know where this tap should be done

You can select the x,y location if you know those details. . .or even have the app look for some text content
But I've found that Identify In App seems to be very intuitive.

So let's choose that, and then we have the ability to open the app we want to automate taps with
Now, let's tap the notification that appeared, so we can tell macrodroid the next tap we perform is where we want it to be recorded

You can now test your Android automation macro once we have tapped the Check button here to save it
It will ask for a name, but you can type anything

Now, you can see the macro is activated, let's test it by launching the app we used as the trigger


Using MacroDroid to Automate Swipes
We're going to continue with this macro by showing you how to set up swipes with this application.
You'll need to tap the plus button here to add another action to the macro

And again, we're going to select the UI Interact option from this list.
Except this time we'll be choosing the Gesture action

This page can seem a bit confusing, but after a little bit of experimenting, it was easy to figure out.
We'll switch this over to percentages, and then start changing the start and end coordinates.

remember, x axis from left to right
y axis for up and down

So we're telling macrodroid to begin the swipe gesture 10% in from the side
And it should be 50% down from the top of the screen

Then, we want this swipe gesture to end on that same 10% X axis
But it should end at around 10% of the Y axis

Tap ok to confirm
And then tap the Check floating button to save the macro

Now we can test this again
You'll see the app opened, it will tap the icon up in the left corner
And then swipe up the screen so it can scroll through this menu


Conclusion
These types of macros can be very useful when it comes to automating tasks on Android
So many times I've played those casual mobile games where you have to complete your dailies for gear and in-game currency

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I can't recommend that you do this yourself. . .since I could see these games checking for this type of thing and ban you for cheating
But knowing how to setup macros like this on Android can really cut out some of the less meaningful tasks on our smartphone or tablet


Step by Step Tutorial
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1. Intro [00:00]
2. How to Automate Taps on Android? [00:43]
3. How to Automate Swipe Gestures on Android? [04:40]
4. Conclusion [07:03]


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