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deepak
deepak

Reputation: 3172

Failed to start an Appium session, err was: Error: Parameter 'appPackage' is required for launching application

I'm running latest version of appium (1.0.0-beta.1), on ubuntu (13.10). When I try to run the test connecting to android emulator, I'm getting the following error.

Failed to start an Appium session, err was: Error: Parameter 'appPackage' is required for launching application info: Error: Parameter 'appPackage' is required for launching application

info: Responding to client with error: {"status":33,"value":{"message":"A new session could not be created. (Original error: Parameter 'appPackage' is required for launching application)","origValue":"Parameter 'appPackage' is required for launching application"},"sessionId":null}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2784

Answers (2)

Abhishek Swain
Abhishek Swain

Reputation: 1054

Match your capabilities as per the following list and use appium 1.0:

File appDir = new File(classpathRoot, "\\lib");
File app = new File(appDir, "Demo1.apk"); 
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "");
capabilities.setCapability("deviceName","BX903HNX10");
capabilities.setCapability("platformVersion", "4.3");
capabilities.setCapability("platformName","Android");
capabilities.setCapability("app", app.getAbsolutePath());
capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "com.gorillalogic.monkeytalk.demo1");
capabilities.setCapability("appActivity",".RootActivity");  
driver = new AppiumDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);

Upvotes: 3

Bibin
Bibin

Reputation: 11

When you are creating a remote webdriver using a code similar to following code (which is in python)

driver = webdriver.Remote('http://localhost:4723/wd/hub', desired_caps)`

The second parameter desired_caps should pass "app-package" and "app-activity" values

desired_caps = {}
desired_caps['app-package'] = 'com.example.android.calculator`
desired_caps['app-activity'] = '.ApiDemos'

The code snippet in python looks like

desired_caps = {}
desired_caps['device'] = 'Android'
desired_caps['browserName'] = ''
desired_caps['version'] = '4.3'
desired_caps['app'] = PATH('<path to the apk>')
desired_caps['app-package'] = 'com.example.android.calculator'
desired_caps['app-activity'] = '.ApiDemos'

driver = webdriver.Remote('http://localhost:4723/wd/hub', desired_caps)

Upvotes: 1

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