Kill and Relaunch app in Appium

sowmyaar · August 14, 2018, 10:04am

Hi All,

Does anybody have an idea how to kill an app and relaunch it using appium.
Any help is much appreciated.
Due to some development issues, the app in the simulator freezes before login and goes to login screen only after killing and relaunching the app and we want to be able to handle this in the appium code. Also we using protractor with Javascript.

Thanks and Regards,
Sowmya

mykola-mokhnach · August 14, 2018, 11:10am

github.com

appium/java-client/blob/742db4eb751c07e93c58e697d8fe21cde2849135/src/main/java/io/appium/java_client/InteractsWithApps.java#L186


    return ApplicationState.ofCode(CommandExecutionHelper.execute(this,
            new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry<>(QUERY_APP_STATE, ImmutableMap.of("bundleId", bundleId))));
}


/**
 * Terminate the particular application if it is running.
 *
 * @param bundleId the bundle identifier (or app id) of the app to be terminated.
 * @return true if the app was running before and has been successfully stopped.
 */
default boolean terminateApp(String bundleId) {
    return terminateApp(bundleId, null);
}


/**
 * Terminate the particular application if it is running.
 *
 * @param bundleId the bundle identifier (or app id) of the app to be terminated.
 * @param options  the set of termination options supported by the
 *                 particular platform.
 * @return true if the app was running before and has been successfully stopped.

github.com

appium/java-client/blob/742db4eb751c07e93c58e697d8fe21cde2849135/src/main/java/io/appium/java_client/InteractsWithApps.java#L148


default void closeApp() {
    execute(CLOSE_APP);
}


/**
 * Activates the given app if it installed, but not running or if it is running in the
 * background.
 *
 * @param bundleId the bundle identifier (or app id) of the app to activate.
 */
default void activateApp(String bundleId) {
    activateApp(bundleId, null);
}


/**
 * Activates the given app if it installed, but not running or if it is running in the
 * background.
 *
 * @param bundleId the bundle identifier (or app id) of the app to activate.
 * @param options  the set of activation options supported by the
 *                 particular platform.

sowmyaar · August 16, 2018, 10:06am

Hi thank you for the update… We using protractor with javascript… Any idea if we could find similar functions for javascript ?

Smitty · August 16, 2018, 2:44pm

Could you just do a driver.quit() followed by a driver = new AndroidDriver() or whatever the JavaScript equivalent is?

Jitu1888 · August 23, 2018, 6:49am

driver.terminateApp(BundleID)