How to avoid killing the running application when starting the Appium Inspector session?

Question

I would like to launch Appium Inspector session to attach to the currently running Android app on my device. The problem I'm facing is that whenever I start the session, the running app is getting killed and launched again. Is there any way to avoid that?

I'm currently using the following config:

{
  "appium:automationName": "UiAutomator2",
  "platformName": "android",
  "appium:app": "/my/path/to/apk",
  "appium:noReset": true
}

Answer 1

Not sure, but those capabilities might help:

"appium:noReset": true,
"appium:autoLaunch": false,

Also, remove appium:app capability and try to run without it (possibly appium will just create an empty session without app and will wait for new instructions).

If it doesn't work, replace appium:app with:

"appium:appPackage": ...,
"appium:appActivity":...

Update

The final capabilities set

"appium:autoLaunch": false, // to disable app relaunch on Appium session start
"appium:noReset": true,
"appium:dontStopAppOnReset": true, // to prevent closing the app Appium Inspector's session stopped
"appium:app"