Close without closing app

[Conrad_Braam]

A bit like this unresolved thread:

Do not want test app to be closed after Test

HI I am testing an Android app, through a .net application Every thing works fine. only problem is that when i say AndroidDriver.Quit() it closes the android app. I want the test app to stay ON when my test is done. Do i have to set some DesiredCapabilities ? My Environment is as follows Appium.WebDriver v.3.0.0.2 Selenium Support v.3.8.0 Selenuim.WebDriver v3.9.0 SharpADBClient v2.2.16

Is there a way to close the connection without closing the application under control? Or do I need to “semi-manually” install the app, and open appium without an app id and then open it using touches? Or some other workaround? (Specifically MacOS and physical iPhone if that’s relevant.)

[mykola-mokhnach]

Have you tried dontStopAppOnReset capability?

[Conrad_Braam]

Will give that a go. No idea why the documentaion is not indexed all over the show. Thanks will update if that resolves.

[mykola-mokhnach]

Just a note: this is for UIA2 driver. For XCUITest one the shouldTerminateApp capability should be used

[Conrad_Braam]

I’m indeed using XCUiTest. And yes (python code bindings)

        'shouldTerminateApp': False,

Does exactly what I want by not terminating when I close the driver, this allowed me to re-open the driver and continue a test, but still allows me to close the app explicitly using driver.
Since https://appium.io/docs/en/writing-running-appium/caps/ does not document this capability but abdicates to the github here https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#desired-capabilities, which is not yet indexed by google often enough, this is a tad harder to find.

[Conrad_Braam]

Thanks @mykola-mokhnach that shouldTerminateApp flag did it for me. Without someone explaining some of it to you, the documentation is just one huge page (wall) of text.

[mykola-mokhnach]

We know it is not ideal, although we are developer, not tech writers. PRs that improve the documentation are always welcome.

[Conrad_Braam]

I have a github account, but I’m no longer a “coder”. I’ll have to write a better broken-down form of it that makes sense to me as a tester and play with it for a while. The Bookmarks in the docs at least work well. I wish we could collate more of the appium forum questions into a picture of where people have to go to reach certain goals. I might just do this once I’m confident I have grasped how it works better

Like today, today I am discovering the mobile extensions and how to call them, very java-centric, but easy enough to write your own python wrapper. Why nobody talks about a python wrapper/mixin for the “mobile: xxxx” extension is a bit strange.