Unable to start APK on android emulator using Katalon Mobile Recorder or Object Spy

[Chris_Trevarthen]

Hi @silmi,

The problem you’re seeing might be that Katalon is launching the wrong activity for your app and is hanging at the splash screen. You can try setting the Desired Capabilities for the appActivity to be the correct application activity (you might need to confirm that value with your developers).

See here for how to set the Desired Capabilities in Katalon Studio:

'Unable to start application on this device' error. packageAndLaunchActivityFromManifest failed.

Hi Rocky, There might be a mismatch between the package name and the activity name in your settings. There are some DesiredCapabilities you can set that might help you get around this. In your Project->Settings menu, go to Execution->Default->Mobile->Android. Add new entries for appPackage, appActivity, appWaitActivity, and appWaitDuration. Here’s a description of what those activities mean: http://appium.io/docs/en/writing-running-appium/caps/ When done, it should look something like this (…

Hope this helps,

Chris