Android - want click on home button and relaunch application

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hi,
I want to click on Home button present on Android device and again want to open the same application. Its native app.
I tried driver.runAppInBackground(8); however it relaunch the application. I don’t want to relaunch application it should start from the state where it was went to background.

I am using appium 1.4.8

Thanks
Nilesh

2

hi,

1 - update to latest appium 1.5.X
2 - send client to background

((AndroidDriver) driver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.HOME);

3 - reopen client later again

try {driver.runAppInBackground(1);}catch(Exception e){}
3

i already tried with driver.runAppinBackGround() but it does not open the app in state where it was went to background. it relaunch the application

4

did you try with sending client into background first and then runAppInBackground() ?

5

yes i tried it but its not working.

6

ok.
then you can first get to know what activity you suspending when press home screen with your application.

and after that driver.startActivity(your_activity) (example: https://github.com/appium/java-client/blob/master/src/test/java/io/appium/java_client/android/AndroidActivityTest.java)

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