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Changing appium setting to not have a fresh state of the app in the simulator

I currently have an app i am automating with appium and webdriverio. I am curious if there is any option in appium to change simulator setting to not have a fresh state of the app in the simulator. There is a tutorial that shows up everything you close the simulator or reinstall the app.

Solution

  • You can achieve it simply with the help of desired capabilities. You have to set Full reset as false and no reset as true. Please have a look.

    capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.FULL_RESET, false);
 capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.NO_RESET, true);

    This way it simply restart emulator or real device from same state it was closed. It will not uninstall and install client.