Android- After dismissing a popup Appium can't find any element

[menypeled]

ENV:
Appium latest 1.6.1
Android 7.1.1
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The test works fine however when some of the popups are opened (see below example) the code can dismiss it however afterwards appium can't find any element.
I suspect that appium "Thinks" that the popup layer is still above the main layer & therefore it doesn't find any element.
Do notice that on previous android version (5.x) we didn't face this issue.
is this a known issue with Android 7.x?

[Mandy_Duvall]

I am having the same issue! Previously posted, but have yet to receive a response. Appium users must have some way of dealing with this. Hopefully somebody gets back to you.

[Samrat_Ghosh]

I have the same problem with appium 1.6.4 with android 7.x, the element doesn't get recognize after accepting allow location.

[Abush]

Hello guys,
Please download the java client beta-8
and lastest appium beta client desktop,
After you accept the alert you should use:
driver.runAppInBackground(1);

And then after the app will back from background it will recognize the elements again !!!!

I know it's not perfect, but it's appium bug !

[Samrat_Ghosh]

this workaround is working for me, the location is automatically granted while driver setup.
capabilities.setCapability("autoGrantPermissions", "true");

I see the following in appium log

Running adb with args: ["-P",5037,"-s","XXXXXX","shell","pm","grant","com.testapp.debug","android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION",";","pm","grant",""com.testapp.debug","android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION",";","pm","grant","com.testapp.debug","android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO",";","pm","grant",""com.testapp.debug","android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS",";"]

[AravindBS_09]

I have the same problem with appium 1.6.2 with android 7.x, the element doesn’t get recognize after accepting popup and also if i try to inspect the element using appium, it closes unexpectedly. Already raise the ticket but no response yet.