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

[Rahul_Rahul]

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

[Priyank_Shah]

driver.pressKey(187); --> driver.findElements("App Name").click();

[Rahul_Rahul]

Thanks for your reply.

Still I'm facing the problems..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

    }

[Priyank_Shah]

drAndroid.pressKeyCode(187);
drAndroid.findElement("Whatsapp").click();

Try above.. BTW why do u require two driver instances?

[Rahul_Rahul]

First instance is not working. That's why created second instance as AndoridDrvier(will delete AppiumDriver).

Question 1 : ----- not able to use Home package
capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "com.android.systemui");
capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", "com.android.systemui.recents.RecentsActivity");

@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 'null' exception..plz refer below code

capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "com.android.launcher");
capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", "com.android.launcher2.Launcher");

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 - ' null '

[Rahul_Rahul]

Priyank - it's working fine and find below code for all reference...

Thanks for your suggestion.

AndroidDriver driver;

capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "com.android.launcher");
capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", "com.android.launcher2.Launcher");

driver = new AndroidDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);

Thread.sleep(5000);

driver.pressKeyCode(187);
driver.findElement(By.name("Messaging")).click();

[sridhareaswaran]

Hi Rahul,

I tried out the above code. But getting back:
org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException: Locator Strategy 'name' is not supported for this session

Any idea on this?

[siddharthpradhan]

findElement

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

[suban]

   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));