Can I spy using call app package already install with remote device

My team self created a farm using appium device farm to manage. Our CICD distribution is not really great and dev hardly using it so mostly we’ll let dev build directly on test phone.

So, the problem is I want to spy mobile with remote device using appium capabilities to call already installed app. But the remote spy say the ID have to use ID or path to the apk/ipa (KS v10). Is there any solution else?

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@qaat.hanh It looks like you are right. When doing Object Spy for remote devices we should be able to use Application Path or the ID. It looks like Katalon Studio is only interpreting this as Application Path on KS version 10. I don’t know if there is a way to manually change that but this might need to be reassigned as a bug report.

As a workaround you can you use the android mobile object spy and select application ID instead of application file. This does not affect execution but is annoying to need to change how we use the remote object spy.

The other workaround is what we used to have to do for mobile/remote object spy. You can still use the remote object spy but give the path to any apk inside the Application Path/ID and then launch and inspect a different app.

Here I gave a random apk as a path (as long as it exists) and am actually inspecting the chrome application.

Thank you for the advice