Appium : New session could not be created

Issues/Bugs
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Hi,

I just started exploring Appium, I am trying to launch Amazon app in my nexus 9 and i am getting following error: “A new session could not be created. (Original error: Activity used to start app doesn’t exist or cannot be launched! Make sure it exists and is a launchable activity”

My app is already installed in nexus devie and i also tried by checking/un-checking “Full reset”/“No reset” options

Here’s my code:

File app = new File(“D:\Seleniumdownloads\apk\com.amazon.mShop.android.apk”);
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, “”);
capabilities.setCapability(“deviceName”, “Nexus 9”);
capabilities.setCapability(“platformVersion”, “5.1.1”);
capabilities.setCapability(“platformName”, “Android”);
capabilities.setCapability(“app”, app.getAbsolutePath());
capabilities.setCapability(“appPackage”, “com.amazon.mShop.android”);
capabilities.setCapability(“appActivity”, “com.amazon.mShop.android.HomeActivity”);

        driver = new AndroidDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(80, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        Thread.sleep(10000);
        driver.quit();

Please help where i am going wrong…

Thanks in advance.

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Step 1: Open Appium console
Step 2: Click on settings and check the ip address and port number and make a note of it.
Step 3: click on launch in the appium console.
Step 4: open terminal/commands prompt check the device name and use the same in the code
step 5: Execute your code…

Comment this following line :smile:

capabilities.setCapability(“appActivity”, “com.amazon.mShop.android.HomeActivity”);

It could be causing the problem as i don’t think it is an activity

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Hi @Arti_999,

If app is already installed in your device, then capabilities.setCapability(“app”, app.getAbsolutePath()); is not required. Comment the line and try to execute