How to increase Android "waitDuration" app startup timeout

Issues/Bugs
1

For some reason I’m unable to locate details on how to increase the timeout during my Android app startup.

My issue:

  • Appium successfully launches my AUT on my device.
  • The AUT splash screen successfully appears.
  • Due to network / API / whatever issues the AUT isn’t getting server responses particularly fast and the splash screen remains for 30-60 seconds (normally it’s just a few seconds and there’s no problem).
  • Finally the AUT initial app screen (Wait For Activity) is rendered.

Unfortunately, Appium is erroring creating the new session after about 20 seconds of splash screen.

WebDriverException: Message: A new session could not be created. (Original error: <my_AUT>.activities.<my_target_activity> never started. Current: <my_AUT>.activities.<launch_activity>)

Device Ready Timeout doesn’t appear to be the proper setting to control this behavior. What is the proper setting to extend the timeout in this scenario?

2

Looks like waitDuration was added via this: https://github.com/appium/appium-adb/pull/46 Now to figure out how to set it.

3

Add this capability to desired capabilities you pass while creating driver -

“newCommandTimeout” : 50000

Hope this works.

4

“newCommandTimeout” does not appear to be the appropriate flag to set for this specific feature.

There appears to be a specific “waitDuration” flag, but I can’t seem to set it at runtime and isn’t mentioned in the Appium server flags documentation as best I can tell.

See the following Appium source code snippet:

if (startAppOptions.hasOwnProperty("waitDuration")) {
+          this.waitForActivity(startAppOptions.waitPkg, startAppOptions.waitActivity, startAppOptions.waitDuration, cb);
+        } else {
+          this.waitForActivity(startAppOptions.waitPkg, startAppOptions.waitActivity, cb);
+        }
       } else {
5

I have the same problem - did you figure out how set this “waitDuration” at runtime?

6

Sorry for the late response. I never did figure this out, thankfully it’s a rare occurrence for me.