The old "Activity cannot be launched" on appium 1.4.13

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My script can install my apk fine but cannot launch it because it cannot find the activity. My android gradle project structure is src/main/java/com/me.android/main/MainActivity. My script:

File projectDir = new File(System.getProperty("user.dir"));
File app = new File(projectDir, APK_NAME);

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "My S6");
capabilities.setCapability("platformVersion", "5.1");
String absPath = app.getAbsolutePath();
capabilities.setCapability("app", absPath);
capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "com.me.android.internal.debug");
capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", ".main.MainActivity");
driver = new AndroidDriver<>(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);

According http://appium.io/slate/en/master/?ruby#appium-server-capabilities, appPackage is “Java package of the android app you want to run”. Running the following command gave me “com.me.android.internal.debug”:

./aapt dump badging ~/myAndroidApp/mobile/build/outputs/apk/mobile-internal-debug-
unaligned.apk | grep package:\ name

My manifest says:

<activity
        android:name=".main.MainActivity"
        android:screenOrientation="portrait"
        android:theme="@style/Theme.myApp">
        android:theme="@style/Theme.xyx.Theme2"
        android:label="@string/start_name"
        android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

I also tried com.me.android.internal.debug.main with just .MainActivity

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manually launch app on device and see below command output to print Launcher Activity
run adb logcat | grep “appName”