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.
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.