WhatsApp opening to wrong screen

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1

When I’m launching WhatsApp through Appium, I always get sent to the following:

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My relevant code is as follows:

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

import io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver;
import io.appium.java_client.MobileElement;
import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver;

public class WA1 {

AppiumDriver driver;
String path;

public void setup() {

  //prints at the beginning
  System.out.println("Session is creating");
  
  //sets up required capabilities
  path = System.getProperty("user.dir");
  DesiredCapabilities cap = new DesiredCapabilities();
  cap.setCapability("platformName", "Android");
  //cap.setCapability("platformVersion", "4.1");
  cap.setCapability("deviceName", "Galaxy on7");
  cap.setCapability("appPackage", "com.whatsapp");
  cap.setCapability("appActivity", path+"//app//WhatsApp.apk");

  try {
  	driver = new AndroidDriver<MobileElement>(new URL("http://0.0.0.0:4723/wd/hub"), cap);
  } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
  	// TODO Auto-generated catch block
  	e.printStackTrace();
  }
  
  
  driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
  
  //prints afterwards
  System.out.println("Session is created");

}

I think it may be the wrong appActivity, but I’m not sure what to list if not that.

2

by default appium does reset of your app. look for link for fix when you start driver - Different capabilities for different scenarios

3

Thanks! In java, is it just cap.setCapabilitiy(“noReset”, true), or something to that effect?

4

example is also in java. but version is latest which have defined “noReset” as constant. but you can use just “noReset” also.