Can we use MonkeyTalk IDE directly with APK files without project source?

Question

I have used android sample projects and successfully convert them to aspectj project and run the app in emulator and record application action with Monkey Talk IDE.

now i want to record only .apk file which is not converted to *aspectj but failed to record.*

I been looking on AspectJ-Wikipeda and this.

Answer 1

Without source code it was not possible . MonkeyTalk must be compiled into the application under test for it to work.

But with latest MonkeyTalk IDE pro edition , instrumentation does it automatically. No need of application source code.
Limitation : As of now possible with only android apk.

Answer 2

It is possible, but you need to use MonkeyTalk Professional Edition. This is not free source, but however available for trial I guess. You can just provide .apk, it will give you instrumented_with_monkeytalk.apk. You can install this apk for monkeytalk to detect.

Answer 3

I tired to instrument the .apk directly from the MonkeyTalkPro IDE. I shows instrumenting later it stops saying that Instrumentation unsuccessful: Error instrumenting the apk I queried a lot and found that it can't handle the complex application, complex in the sense which has 9-patch images. But I tired for the simple applications still the result is same. Anyone got the success in conversion of apk directly into the instrumented apk.(without any sourcecode and aspectJ conversion, just using monkeytalk IDE)