How to launch new activity for Appium Android

Question

How to switch from one Activity to another Activity within the application?

@Note: I am using TESTNG framework.

Below is my code.

    String settingsAppPackageName="com.xxx.xxx.xxxx.dashBoard";

    String settingsAppActivityName="com.xxxx.xxxx.xxx.xxx.DashBoard";

     @Test(priority = 1)

    public void loginTC2(){

         System.out.println("Login 3333::>"+driver.currentActivity());

         if(driver.currentActivity().equals("com.xxx.xxx.xxxx.login.LoginActivity")){

             System.out.println("Login 6666::>"+driver.currentActivity());

             driver.findElement(By.id("com.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx:id/edtUserName")).sendKeys("xxxx");

            driver.findElement(By.id("com.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx:id/edtPassword")).sendKeys("xxxx");

            driver.findElement(By.id("com.xxxx.xxxx.xxxx:id/btnLogin")).click();

             // If action is executed then I want to navigate to DashboardActivity

            driver.startActivity(settingsAppPackageName, settingsAppActivityName);

         }else{

            System.out.println("Login 4444::>"+driver.currentActivity());

         }

    }

Answer 1

Firstly, test if the activity you want is launching:

adb shell am start -n <app_package_name>/<full_activity_name>

If it goes like Starting: Intent {<>} without errors and you can see app launched on emulator/device, then you I ready to go with Appium.