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How to run malloDroid script?

I want to check SSL verification in my application. I downloaded on my santoku malloDroid.py and try use it (of course earlier I have read that script is an extansion of Androguard). I simply run mallo app: ./malloroid.py -f test.apk and i got import error that there is no androguard module. How to run malloDroid script to verify ssl?

In order to use MalloDroid, you need to have AndroGuard. Setting up Androguard is quite straight forward. Read more about installation here .
Once you have Androguard set up along with the proper environment variables, you can use Mallodroid as follows :
./mallodroid.py -f test.apk -x
This will most likely work!

How to run single testcase with Monkeyrunner

According to official documentation function MonkeyDevice.instrument(className, args) is perfectly suitable for this task.
As I understand this should be done like this:
device.instrument('my.package.name/android.test.InstrumentationTestRunner', {'class':'my.package.name.SingleTest'})
However it still launches all test-cases. Is it bug or my mistake?

It's a chimpchat bug.
I've just uploaded a path that fixes the problem.
Once applied, you will be able to run all the tests in a class by using the same syntax you are using.
If you want to give it a try before the patch is merged you can
download android source
cherry pick patch 37560
set the environment (build/envsetup.sh)
lunch
make chimpchat
make monkeyrunner

Try:
device.shell('am instrument -w -e class my.package.name.SingleTest my.package.name/android.test.InstrumentationTestRunner')
For some reason, device.instrument() way doesn't work for me even with latest sdk 20.0.1 and platform 14.

Shell script won't run on Android but will on Ubuntu

This script was written to make changes to the build.prop file on rooted devices. It will run on ubuntu but throws the following error when it is ran on a device. 6: Syntax error: expecting "in"
LINE_BREAK=""
while read line
do
case $line in
ro.ril.reject.cs.ss.enabled?=*)
line="ro.ril.reject.cs.ss.enabled=1";;
ro.ril.reject.mo.ussd.enabled?=*)
line="ro.ril.reject.mo.ussd.enabled=1";;
ro.phone.function?=*)
line="ro.phone.function=0";;
ro.bt.profiles?=*)
line="ro.bt.profiles=4270339";;
service.brcm.bt.ag_supported?=*)
line="service.brcm.bt.ag_supported=0";;
esac
NEW_FILE="$NEW_FILE$LINE_BREAK$line"
LINE_BREAK="\n"
done </system/build.prop
echo $NEW_FILE>/system/build.prop
Is there a nuance to writing scripts in android that I am missing? Thanks in advance!

You can try writing a script using SL4A which is the scripting layer for android.
Reference
http://android.amolgupta.in/2011/04/scripting-on-android.html

I do not have an Android but I would try putting quotes around $line:
case "$line" in
Just a hunch. Sorry about that. Maybe you tried already.

Where is the help.py for Android's monkeyrunner

I just can't find the help.py file in order to create the API reference for the monkeyrunner. The command described at the Android references
monkeyrunner <format> help.py <outfile> does not work when i call monkeyrunner html help.py /path/to/place/the/doc.html.
It's quite obvious that the help.py file is not found and the monkeyrunner also tells me "Can't open specified script file". But a locate on my system doesn't bring me a help.py file that has anything to do with monkeyrunner or Android.
So my question is: Where did they hide the help.py file for creating the API reference?

I cannot find it either. But one can assume that it is simply calling MonkeyRunner.help() with the passed in arguments. If you just want to get something quick use this script I created also named help.py:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Imports the monkeyrunner modules used by this program
from com.android.monkeyrunner import MonkeyRunner, MonkeyDevice
text = MonkeyRunner.help("html");
f = open('help.html', 'w')
f.write(text);
f.close();
Run it just like any other monkeyrunner script:
$ monkeyrunner help.py

After I have all codes in my machine (i.e, repo sync), it is at mydroid/sdk/monkeyrunner/scripts along with other three:
help.py monkey_playback.py monkey_recorder.py mr_pydoc.py

This is brilliant answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/4470513/551383 but if you really want this file is in android source i.e. http://androidxref.com/4.2_r1/xref/sdk/monkeyrunner/scripts/help.py

http://androidxref.com/source/xref/sdk/monkeyrunner/scripts/help.py
I believe the documentation on the website starts from that script, but I'm pretty sure somebody edits it a bit afterwards as well.

There's an error in monkeyrunner's help documentation (monkeyrunner Built-in Help), you should use parameters in another order:
monkeyrunner help.py <format> <outfile>
And don't forget about specifying a full path to the script, if you're running it outside of the monkeyrunner.bat directory (android monkeyrunner scripts).
If you don't have Repo Sync, described by users above, you can find the sources (including help.py), for example, here: monkeyrunner scripts.
I opened an issue at Google Code (Issue 26259: monkeyrunner Built-in Help Description Error) and I hope that they'll fix it soon.

how to execute the test cases of PVplayer in android?

hi can you tell me how to execute the test cases defined in /external/opencore/engines/player/test/src in the donut code?
I have seen the PVplayer documentation , but that does not provide any information.
I am trying to run an SDP file in the PVplayer.

Try to follow the following steps to run the PV Player engine tests (I have done all this with donut code and product Sapphire):
1.You have to include the following line in /external/opencore/Android.mk while making build:
#include $(PV_TOP)/engines/player/test/Android.mk
Either uncomment this (if its commented) or remove any check which is avoiding this line to be included.
2.Build and install the images into phone.
3.Now open shell (use adb shell command). go to directory /system/bin.
There will be an excutable pvplayer_engine_test. Now run the following command:
pvplayer_engine_test -test x y -source xyz.mp4 -logfile -logall
where x is the start test case number and y is the end test
case number.
(For more command line options, please refer pvplayer_engine_unit_test_guide.pdf which is available at /external/opencore/doc location).
Hope this helps.