Set mouse position in software

Question

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Answer 1

I additionally require to reset the position of the mouse to the center after every single interaction with the user.

This is now possible with the pointer capture API in Android 8.0+ (released August 2017). Summary:

To request pointer capture, call the requestPointerCapture() method on the view.

Once the request to capture the pointer is successful, Android calls onPointerCaptureChange(true), and starts delivering the mouse events.

Your focused view can handle the events by performing one of the following tasks:

1. If you're using a custom view, override onCapturedPointerEvent(MotionEvent).

2. Otherwise, register an OnCapturedPointerListener.

The view in your app can release the pointer capture by calling releasePointerCapture().

Answer 2

Mouse event is managed by the system framework. You cannot control it on Java side.

On the adb shell you can open /dev/input/uevent device to write mouse events include

1. relative movement
2. click action
3. absolute position (you might want this)

However, you cannot do it as a normal application, unless you do it on a rooted device, or you can use adb shell to start a daemon service in the background to perform the event writing for your application.