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How to add app file to appium Desired Capabilities correctly?

I used SauceLabs example 

   DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
   capabilities.setCapability("BROWSER_NAME", "Android");
   capabilities.setCapability("VERSION", "4.4.2");
   capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "Android Emulator");
   capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "Android");

   //zip file containing your app to be tested
   capabilities.setCapability("app", "http://appium.s3.amazonaws.com/TestApp6.0.app.zip");

   driver = new RemoteWebDriver
   (new URL(MessageFormat.format("http://{0}:{1}@ondemand.saucelabs.com:80/wd/hub", 
   sauceUserName, sauceAccessKey)), capabilities);

And this is work perfectly fine. But when I downloaded zip with app and switched to local environment 

capabilities.setCapability("app", app.getAbsolutePath());    
driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://0.0.0.0:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);

I got error from appium console:

error: Failed to start an Appium session, err was: Error: Bad app: /home/.../appium/assets/TestApp6.0.app.zip. App paths need to be absolute, or relative to the appium server install dir, or a URL to compressed file, or a special app name. cause: App zip unzipped OK, but we couldn't find a .app bundle in it. Make sure your archive contains the .app package and nothing else

Solution

  • Try this instead of RemoteWebDriver: use AndroidDriver. Also, if you run from localhost mention the IP address or just type "localhost".

    capabilities.setCapability("app", app.getAbsolutePath());    
driver = new AndroidDriver (new URL("http://localhost:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);

    Create a folder called "app" and place your testing Android app there.

    Example code:

    File filePath = new File(System.getProperty("user.dir"));
File appDir = new File(filePath, "/app");
File app = new File(appDir, "yourapkfile.apk");