Appium startActivity() Function

Question

I am new to Appium, In my code I have given required desired capabilities and wrote one test case that is working fine. Now I want to launch another App for second test in same code , how can I do that ? I heard about startActivity(app-package,app Activity) but its not working, it says startActivity() not defined for Web Driver .

public class Calculator {
WebDriver driver;
@BeforeClass
public void setUp() throws MalformedURLException{
//Set up desired capabilities and pass the Android app-activity and app-package to Appium
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "Android");
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.VERSION, "4.4");
capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "Android");
capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "14085521650378");
capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "com.android.calculator2"); // This is package name of your app (you can get it from apk info app)
capabilities.setCapability("appActivity","com.android.calculator2.Calculator");
configurations specified in Desired Capabilities
driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:9515/wd/hub"), capabilities); 
}
@Test
public void testCal(){
driver.findElement(By.name("2")).click();
driver.findElement(By.name("+")).click();
driver.findElement(By.name("4")).click();
driver.findElement(By.name("=")).click();
}
@Test
public void Test2() {   driver.startActivity("appPackage", "com.tttk.apc","appActivity","com.tttk.apc.DWDemoActivity");
        for(int i=0; i<20;i++)
        driver.findElement(By.className("android.widget.ImageButton")).click();
}
@AfterClass
public void teardown(){
//close the app
driver.quit();
}}

Answer 1

Seems like you are trying to use the method with a WebDriver instance.

The startActivity method is provided by an interface StartsActivity implemented by AndroidDriver only. So ideally this shall work :

((AndroidDriver) driver).startActivity(<appPackage>, <appActivity>);