Testing multiple apps on same device

shijin_abraham · February 13, 2015, 11:38pm

Hi,

I test test an app, which interacts with another app on the same device . Is it possible to use appium to automate two apps at a time on the same device.

(The answer was a “no”, when I asked this question few months back.

kirill · February 14, 2015, 3:49am

iOS - no
Android - yes

shijin_abraham · February 14, 2015, 6:06am

@kirill
Can you elaborate… Or give pointers to any documentation?

bhaskar · February 14, 2015, 9:03am

Hi…@kirill May i know how multiple apps are possible on Android. I think it can be achieved with startActivity() of other app…Yes?

kirill · February 14, 2015, 5:54pm

That depends what scenario you have…
And there are multiple ways to start activity on Android: either, as you say, statActivity() method, which is simple one, either using adb. But that’s essentially the same thing: