Intents are ignored by Appium - need help

Daniel_Lozynski · September 30, 2015, 11:34am

Hi,

I want to start that type of intent:

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d “app://screen1”

It actually works (and opens a deeplink) in the terminal with regular ADB - but why is that actually not working when I set all needed(?) capabilities for Appium?

        app = new File(appDir, "app.apk");
        capabilities.setCapability("app", app.getAbsolutePath());
        capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "Android");
        capabilities.setCapability("deviceName","Android");
        //capabilities.setCapability("platformVersion", "5.0.4");
        //capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "com.test.qa");
        capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", "");
        capabilities.setCapability("intentAction", "android.intent.action.VIEW");
        capabilities.setCapability("optionalIntentArguments","-d \"app://screen1\" com.test.qa");
        capabilities.setCapability("intentCategory","");

It simply ignores that intent and starts the app/tests regularly. Any ideas ? Do you support both explicit and implicit intents?

The terminal tells me Appium is using:

adb -s SH51EWM01926 shell am start -S -a android.intent.action.VIEW -f 0x10200000 -n com.test.qa/com.test.qa.navigation.home.HomeActivity -d “app://screen1” com.test.qa

So basically that:

“-n com.test.qa/com.test.qa.navigation.home.HomeActivity”