Modeling system-wide touches in iOS 7

Question

GSSendEvent no longer works for me.

Even subscribing to a callback using GSEventRegisterEventCallBack does not work with touch events, [UIEvent _gsEvent] returns NULL.

What happened?

Answer 1

IOS now uses IOHIDEvent (in IOKit.framework) for touch events.

backboardd creates touch events and is sent to SpringBoard, and SpringBoard receives it through UIApplicationHandleEventQueue

In any case, if you have a jailbroken device and want to simulate a touch, just use the SimulateTouch library. You can download it from the Bigboss repository, and the API information is here http://api.iolate.kr/simulatetouch/

It is also open source. https://github.com/iolate/SimulateTouch