Android Monkey: "No activities found to run, monkey aborted"

Question

My package is named com.mywebsite.banana.

• I want to have a seed, so the test is repeatable: -s 13
• I want to have a fairly low-level of verbosity: -v
• I want to run 500 psuedo-random commands: 500

I'm calling monkey like this:

adb shell monkey -s 13 -p com.mywebsite.banana -v 500

My output:

:Monkey: seed=13 count=500
:IncludeCategory: android.intent.category.LAUNCHER
:IncludeCategory: android.intent.category.MONKEY
No activities found to run, monkey aborted

My AndroidManifest.xml has this in it:

<categoy android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>

What am I doing wrong? Is there something I need to add to my app before running the monkey? The main activity is located in com.mywebsite.banana - is that the correct path to be passed in, or should it go all the way to the activity like this: com.mywebsite.banana.activityName?

From what I've read, it seems as though I'm doing this correctly:

• http://dnlkntt.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/how-to-stress-test-your-android-app-with-monkey/
• http://www.tutorialspoint.com/android/android_testing.htm
• http://hariniachala.blogspot.com/2011/09/android-application-ui-testing-with.html

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Edit

Attempt 1:

adb shell monkey -p com.mywebsite.banana -c intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER -v 500

Result 1:

:Monkey: seed=13 count=500
:AllowPackage: com.mywebsite.banana
:IncludeCategory: intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER  
// Warning: no activities found for category intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER
** No activities found to run, monkey aborted

Attempt 2:

adb shell monkey -p com.mywebsite.banana -c android.intent.category.MONKEY -v 500

Result 2:

:Monkey: seed=13 count=500
:AllowPackage: com.mywebsite.banana
:IncludeCategory: android.intent.category.MONKEY 
No activities found to run, monkey aborted

Attempt 3:

adb shell monkey -p com.mywebsite.banana -c android.intent.category.LAUNCHER -c android.intent.category.MONKEY -v 500

Result 3:

:Monkey: seed=13 count=500
:AllowPackage: com.mywebsite.banana
:IncludeCategory: android.intent.category.LAUNCHER
:IncludeCategory: android.intent.category.MONKEY 
No activities found to run, monkey aborted

Some of the manifest:

<activity
        android:name="com.mywebsite.banana.FRCActivity"
        android:launchMode="singleTask"
        android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="none" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.MONKEY"/>
        </intent-filter>
</activity>

Also tried this version of the manifest, with no change:

    <activity
        android:name="com.mywebsite.banana.FRCActivity"
        android:launchMode="singleTask"
        android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.MONKEY"/>
        </intent-filter>
</activity>

Answer 1

OK! I figured this out. The error that is shown is indeed correct:

** No activities found to run, monkey aborted

This means that the package name I was using was incorrect. I stared and stared and stared, and finally my colleague mentioned that our build system changes the name of the package before pushing it to the device

So, if you are getting this error, make sure you actually know what the name of your package is.

So, the final command that worked was this:

$ adb shell monkey -p com.mywebsite.banana.newname -v 5

By the way, correct output from this monkey command looks like this:

:Monkey: seed=1418671144561 count=5
:AllowPackage: com.mywebsite.banana.newname
:IncludeCategory: android.intent.category.LAUNCHER
:IncludeCategory: android.intent.category.MONKEY
// Event percentages:
//   0: 15.0%
//   1: 10.0%
//   2: 2.0%
//   3: 15.0%
//   4: -0.0%
//   5: 25.0%
//   6: 15.0%
//   7: 2.0%
//   8: 2.0%
//   9: 1.0%
//   10: 13.0%
:Switch: #Intent;action=android.intent.action.MAIN;category=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER;launchFlags=0x10200000;component=com.mywebsite.banana.newname/com.mywebsite.banana.MyActivity;end
// Allowing start of Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] cmp=com.mywebsite.banana.newname/com.mywebsite.banana.MyActivity } in package com.mywebsite.banana.newname
Events injected: 5
:Sending rotation degree=0, persist=false
:Dropped: keys=0 pointers=0 trackballs=0 flips=0 rotations=0
## Network stats: elapsed time=175ms (0ms mobile, 0ms wifi, 175ms not connected)
// Monkey finished

One final note: I did NOT need to add android.intent.category.MONKEY to my AndroidManifest.xml file!

Answer 2

To add to @ncrypticus's answer, I think the easiest way to find out the final package name is to open the app on the emulator and then in Android Studio go to Tools -> Layout Inspector. This will show you the package name of that app.

Answer 3

For me to find name of a package (which was also changed) i try this:

$ adb shell monkey --ignore-crashes -c android.intent.category.LAUNCHER -v 10000 > text_logs.txt

It was logged a lot of intents and all of them pointed to packages names in between was also mine.