tools/monkeyrunner/src/com/android/monkeyrunner/MonkeyRunnerBackend.java

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2010 The Android Open Source Project
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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package com.android.monkeyrunner;

/**
 * Interface between MonkeyRunner common code and the MonkeyRunner backend.  The backend is
 * responsible for communicating between the host and the device.
 */
public interface MonkeyRunnerBackend {
    /**
     * Wait for a device to connect to the backend.
     *
     * @param timeoutMs how long (in ms) to wait
     * @param deviceIdRegex the regular expression to specify which device to wait for.
     * @return the connected device (or null if timeout);
     */
    MonkeyDevice waitForConnection(long timeoutMs, String deviceIdRegex);

    /**
     * Shutdown the backend and cleanup any resources it was using.
     */
    void shutdown();
}