How to invoke Recent apps activity and launch app from recent app list by using appium?

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How to invoke Recent apps activity and launch app from recent app list by using appium?

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driver.pressKey(187); --> driver.findElements(ā€œApp Nameā€).click();

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Thanks for your reply.

Still Iā€™m facing the problemsā€¦find below code for your reference.

AppiumDriver driver;
AndroidDriver drAndroid;

public void recentApp() {

        // driver.pressKey(187); //getting error after that created " drAndroid"

          drAndroid.pressKeyCode(187);
         
          driver.findElements("Whatsapp").click(); // I'm not able to use driver.findElements

    }
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drAndroid.pressKeyCode(187);
drAndroid.findElement(ā€œWhatsappā€).click();

Try aboveā€¦ BTW why do u require two driver instances?

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First instance is not working. Thatā€™s why created second instance as AndoridDrvier(will delete AppiumDriver).

Question 1 : ----- not able to use Home package
capabilities.setCapability(ā€œappPackageā€, ā€œcom.android.systemuiā€);
capabilities.setCapability(ā€œappActivityā€, ā€œcom.android.systemui.recents.RecentsActivityā€);

@BeforeClass Setup
org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: A new session could not be created. (Original error: Permission to start activity denied.) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 4.57 seconds
Qaestion 2 -------- if i use launcer activity gettting ā€˜nullā€™ exceptionā€¦plz refer below code

capabilities.setCapability(ā€œappPackageā€, ā€œcom.android.launcherā€);
capabilities.setCapability(ā€œappActivityā€, ā€œcom.android.launcher2.Launcherā€);

Thread.sleep(5000);

         drAndroid.findElement(By.id("com.android.systemui:id/task_view_bar")).click();

recent app list is displaying for a while n getting Exception is - ā€™ null ā€™

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Priyank - itā€™s working fine and find below code for all referenceā€¦

Thanks for your suggestion.

AndroidDriver driver;

capabilities.setCapability(ā€œappPackageā€, ā€œcom.android.launcherā€);
capabilities.setCapability(ā€œappActivityā€, ā€œcom.android.launcher2.Launcherā€);

driver = new AndroidDriver(new URL(ā€œhttp://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hubā€), capabilities);

Thread.sleep(5000);

driver.pressKeyCode(187);
driver.findElement(By.name(ā€œMessagingā€)).click();

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Hi Rahul,

I tried out the above code. But getting back:
org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException: Locator Strategy ā€˜nameā€™ is not supported for this session

Any idea on this?

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Byname is depreciated and also, how to get app name ?

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   driver.pressKey(new KeyEvent(AndroidKey.APP_SWITCH));

   driver.pressKey(new KeyEvent(AndroidKey.DPAD_DOWN));
   driver.pressKey(new KeyEvent(AndroidKey.DPAD_DOWN));     

   driver.pressKey(new KeyEvent(AndroidKey.ENTER));
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