Abstract: A remote control module enables remote operation and control of a host device such as a mobile computing device. The user may employ an interface of the service to specify input events to be executed on the host device, such as touch, text, numeric, key, voice, haptic, or other types of inputs. The input events may be executed on the device through a virtualization module executing as a background process on the device. A display capture module may also execute as a background process on the host device to capture screenshots of the host device display using a hardware video encoder of the host device. The screenshots are placed in device memory. The remote control module may retrieve the screenshots from the host device memory, assemble them into a video stream, and provide the video stream to the user through the user interface as a real-time view of the host device.

Abstract: Application validation is performed based at least in part on object level hierarchy data associated with the application. An application is executed on a physical or emulated host device, and assembly code is generated for the executing application. The assembly code is analyzed to identify objects associated with the application, and to identify relationships between the objects. Based on the object and relationship data, an object level hierarchy is generated for the application. Validation of the application may be performed by comparing an object level hierarchy for a current version of the application to a previously generated hierarchy for a previous version of the application to identify differences between to the two hierarchies.