How to find app Launcher activity name in Appium

We have two options for find app activity name

1) By using Command Prompt
2) Manifest Info
3) Hierarchy Viewer


1) By using Command Prompt

Please find below steps to find app activity name using command prompt.


-> app APK package name. EX : com.android.calculator2

-> Launch the Android Emulator and wait till starts properly.

-> Goto command prompt and goto E:\android-sdks\platform-tools and verify the device connected properly (not offline). by using below command

E:\SDK\platform-tools>adb devices

List of devices attached
emulator-5554   device

-> Open the reuired app and keep on active in Emulator

-> GOTO and command prompt and use below commands

E:\android-sdks\platform-tools>adb logcat >log.txt

-> Now its generated log text file. Here you can search by app Package name (com.android.calculator2) then we will have log like

I/ActivityManager(  878): Displayed com.android.calculator2/.Calculator: +7s332ms


Here com.android.calculator2.Calculator is app activity name.



2) By using AndroidManifest.xml Info



http://software-testing-tutorials-automation.blogspot.in/2015/10/find-launcher-activity-and-package-name.html


-> Right click on .apk file of APK Info app(or any other .apk file for which you wants to know package and activity name).

-> Select Open with -> WinRAR archiver option from right click context menu.

-> It will open .apk file in WinRAR window and you can see AndroidManifest.xml.

-> Open AndroidManifest.xml file in notepad. Now find keyword "p a c k a g e" In notepad.

-> Package name for my APK Info app is : com.intelloware.apkinfo Find keyword "a c t i v i t y" In notepad. It will show you activity name of your app.


-> Activity name for my APK Info app is display: .MainActivity. Here you need to append package name ahead of activity name so full activity name is : com.intelloware.apkinfo.MainActivity



3) Hierarchy Viewer 


-> Launch the Android Emulator and wait till starts properly.

-> Launch the appium and start the server.

-> Open the Hierarchy viewer from below path. Android Emulator should be starts properly, its should not be closed.

C:\android-sdks\tools\hierarchyviewer.bat


-> Then goto page in emulator which activity needs to be record.

-> Then automatically we can see the package name and activity name in Hierarchy viewer

we can see in bold color

com.android.calculator2/com.android.calculator2.calculator

Here,

package Name = com.android.calculator2
Activity Name = com.android.calculator2.calculator