create an overlay app to detect screen - Other Tools & General Discussion

I am looking to basically create a bot for a game to do some time consuming boring functions so that I don't have to. I am familiar with a few languages but not java (i'm assuming id need to use java to create this).
My question: I am hoping someone could point me in the right direction and tell me if learning Java is what I need to do, or if there is some kind of bot app out there that I could work with.
What I am trying to do : I want to create something that will run over top of the game I am playing, when I activate it, number values would be checked and if they dont meet a certain criteria the next button is pressed.
I know there are no such thing as free handouts and Im not asking anyone to design this for me, just looking for someone to point me in the right direction so I can read, learn, and develop this.

Create an overlay app to detect screen.
To turn off the screen overlay for 2 minutes, complete the following :-
1.Open Settings.
2.Select Apps.
3.Tap the Gear icon.
4.Select Draw over other apps.
5.Enable Temporarily turn off overlays.
6.Close and reopen the application.
7.Set the application permission.

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[Q] Constant acoustic and optical feedback for touchevent and a "touch logger"
Hello everybody !
I want to know if the following things are possible:
1) A constant optical feedback whenever the user touches the display. (e.g. A green circle around the touchposition.) Not only at the homescreen but in every application. ( e.g. browser ,games etc.)
2) A constant acoustic that plays a certain sound whenever the user touches the display. This should also work no matter what apllication is used at that moment.
3) A Touch logger that creates a file where the used apps and the number of touches are saved.
(e.g. Open App: Browser; Number of touches: 35)
This should help patients with limited motor skills and sensory damage to train. It is hard to imagine but these people can not feel when they touch something.
The touch logger should show if they realy use the device (e.g. tablet like Samsung Galaxy).
Since my question(s) are not really general I wanted to aks them in the developing Forum but I am not allowed to. Maybe an Admin could move it to the developing section if he or she thinks the questions belong there.
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This sounds like a fantastic idea, although i'm sure things exist for this purpose in medicine already.
The closest thing I can think of is an application that I believe was called "Plasma". Basically you could turn it into ghost mode and it would hide the applications black background so you'd see your home screen. When you touch the screen a plasma-like bolt emerges and the phone vibrates. This does remove all interactivity with the phone though i'm afraid, I suppose the application needs to manage the screen entirely to be able to respond to user input.
I have not developed in Android yet but if there is a function for userinput that allows an event regardless of what the phone is doing then this app would be doable. I would imagine that this application would need to be Service based to ensure it runs at all times.
Edit:
Resource 1:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2068007/android-how-do-i-get-raw-touch-screen-information
Resource 2:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2939332/get-the-co-ordinates-of-a-touch-event-on-android
Can be modified to produce what you want.
Maybe something similar to the overlay of ScreenFilter or Total Screen Control, that just puts a semitransparent overlay on the screen to save battery. You could use the same methods to possibly run an overlay that catches and responds to touch.
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dkl_uk said:
This sounds like a fantastic idea, although i'm sure things exist for this purpose in medicine already.
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Unfortunately the current therapy methods are more like "touch a sensors and a light flashes". This is effectiv feedback but as you can imagen the patient is not motivated to keep playing/exercising.
I was not able to find a way for the genarl feedback. The plasma application gives a good idea of what i am looking for but as you already mentioned I need interactivity.
Looks like I have to modify open source games.
Has anyonen an idea if i could use the logcat recordings to monitor how often the user has touched the display. (For every application not just open source projects where I added something like Log.d("TOUCHTEST", "count" + ": " +numoftouch)

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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=930764
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