How to make adb tap fast (ADB+Python)

Question

So I made a bot for a singleplayer android game, using python and adb. The biggest problem is that between each tap there is like a 1 second delay.

I connect to the device like this -

from ppadb.client import Client

def Get_device_adb():
    adb = Client(host="127.0.0.1", port=5037)

    devices = adb.devices()
    if len(devices) == 0:
        print("No device attached")
        quit()

    return devices[0]

device = Get_device_adb()

and use shell input tap to send my taps -

taps = [(225, 750), (350, 800), ...]
for tap in taps:
    device.shell(f"input tap {tap[0]} {tap[1]}")

For the game I need the taps to happen as fast as possible one after another, and currently they have a 1 second delay between them.

By the way, I really want this script to run in python and not in jython

So is there a way to make adb tap faster?

Answer 1

You can try AndroidViewClient/cuelbra using CluebraTester2-public backend and you can get a much higher rate.

Here is an example script

#! /usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import time
from com.dtmilano.android.viewclient import ViewClient

device, serialno = ViewClient.connectToDeviceOrExit()

kwargs2 = {'useuiautomatorhelper': True}
vc = ViewClient(device, serialno, **kwargs2)

taps = [(225, 750), (350, 800), (100, 100), (300, 300), (150, 150), (100, 200)]
for tap in taps:
    print(f'{time.time()}: touching @{tap}')
    vc.touch(tap[0], tap[1])

using an emulator I could obtain

1635459899.020685: touching @(225, 750)
1635459899.202344: touching @(350, 800)
1635459899.522454: touching @(100, 100)
1635459899.703721: touching @(300, 300)
1635459899.8933198: touching @(150, 150)
1635459903.257416: touching @(100, 200)

which gives approx. 1 touch every 200 ms.

edit

There's a new answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/72268342/236465 that reduces the time per click to around 100ms