How to launch an installed app using Katalon Studio

[Chris_Trevarthen]

Hi @ouknam,

Could you please explain what you’re trying to test, what you’ve tried, and what is going wrong?

If you’re trying to run an existing app on a device or simulator, then this post might help:

How to change desired capabilities during executing the test suit on real android device

Hi @zanoon2010, I think you can fake out the test to switch applications by setting the Desired Capabilities, using RunConfiguration.setMobileDriverPreferencesProperty: import com.kms.katalon.core.configuration.RunConfiguration import com.kms.katalon.core.mobile.keyword.MobileBuiltInKeywords as Mobile // You will need a real .apk file here in order to launch successfully, even if you're not testing it String appFile = "/fullpathtomyfile/mobile-beta.apk" // The app info for the built-in app y…

Or if you follow the instructions above from this post, you can unzip the mobile.zip file mentioned in the post, then open the Android Mobile Tests with Katalon Studio.prj file within it:

How to launch an installed app using Katalon Studio

Hi there, Attached is the sample project using the same approach I’ve given before. Before jumping into this project, make sure you read our approach carefully to understand why do we need to define these own capabilities by yourself, and have a brief read about Appium architecture Looking at this project, some things to be noticed: Appium is started manually with the help of AppiumServer utilitiy, and of course it will be terminated right after test execution. For the current instance of th…

Hope this helps,

– Chris