Any way to host an app in the background and restart in Appium iOS

Question

Is there a way to do the following process in iOS Automation using Appium?

• Press the home button.
• Put the application in the background.
• Open another application (say Gmail) → do the operations there.
• Then restart our application and resume checking methods.

I tried:

RemoteWebDriver wd = null;
wd.close();

But it just closes the application (exactly the same as wd.quit()), which I automate, and then when I try to restart → it starts from scratch. I run it on an iPhone simulator.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

iOS

Xcode : https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/4479 , : fooobar.com/questions/1532429/...

Android

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((AppiumDriver) driver).sendKeyEvent(AndroidKeyCode.HOME);

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2. i.e driver.findElementsByClassName("android.widget.TextView").get(5).click();

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driver.findElementsByName(AppName).get(0).click();

Answer 3

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, (Java):

Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
String[] args = { "osascript", "-e", "tell application \"System Events\" \n tell application \"Simulator\" to activate \n tell application \"System Events\" to keystroke \"h\" using {command down, shift down} \n end tell" };
runtime.exec(args);

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, Applescript:

tell application "System Events"
  tell application "Simulator" to activate
  tell application "System Events" to keystroke "h" using {command down, shift down}
end tell

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Answer 4

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AppiumDriver dr = MobileDriverFactory.getDriver()
            try {
                dr.runAppInBackground(2)
            } catch (WebDriverException e) {
                if (e.getMessage().contains("An error occurred while executing user supplied JavaScript")) {
                } else {
                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
                }
            }

iOS

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ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("idevicedebug", "run", "YourAppNameHere")
            Thread.sleep(5000)
            Process p=pb.start()
            Thread.sleep(5000)
        p.destroy()

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ideviceinstaller -l

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"idevicedebug run com.google.ios.youtube" 

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

Have you tried using driver.execute_script "au.backgroundApp(5)"for your application?

The problem with this method is that during these 5 seconds you cannot interact with the device, backgroundApp blocks.

Answer 7

A simpler simple solution for Android Appium with Ruby:

  def switch_back_to_app
    # For Android
    #
    # To Put App in Background Press recent apps to close
    $driver.press_keycode(187)

    sleep(1)
    # To bring the same app back i.e Press recent apps to open
    $driver.press_keycode(187)
  rescue => e
    p e.exception
  end
  module_function :switch_back_to_app

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Answer 8

For Android:

driver.pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.HOME);

For iOS:

driver.executeScript("mobile: pressButton", ImmutableMap.of("name", "home"));