Appium android clear app data

Question

My scenario is, I'm switching from one app to another in an Android phone.

While switching from one app to the other, I want to clear all data or do a hard reset of the app I'm switching from. Also before the new app starts (using driver.activateapp) I want all data to be cleared.

I tried driver.resetapp but, it only reets the first app and not the next one which I'm opening.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.FULL_RESET, true);
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.NO_RESET, false);

Have you try this in your one of before methods ?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58766977/how-to-reset-application-in-appium

Answer 2

Solution :

• For your scenario, You want to clear app data for second app.
• So you need to write any method where it will clear app data for second app while switching the application

How to do it?

• Option 1 : You can achieve it using adb shell pm clear <your-app-pkg>
• Option 2 : You can start your appium server with flag --full-reset initially and or while switching after creating driver you can execute method driver.resetApp()
• Option 2 was clearing app data of first app because you call it right after driver got initialised for app one. Tweak a little and call it after you initialise driver for second app
• Option 3 :
• Why do not you give a try to reinstall app instead of activateapp
• So for your case, You do not explicitly required to clear app data for second app