How to get launcher Activity of android package

For appium/android automation testing, the Launcher activity is one of DesiredCapabilities to setup initialize  running step. so below is way that use adb command to find it.

From command line/terminal, type command(com.android.launcher3 is package name)

  • adb shell dumpsys window windows | grep -i com.android.launcher3 (MAC/LINUX)
  • adb shell dumpsys window windows | findstr com.android.launcher3 (WINDOWS)

activityname

 

For more solutions, please find at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12698814/get-launchable-activity-name-of-package-from-adb

The other way:

  • open the application you want to get activity
  • open command line/terminal and type command below:

adb shell dumpsys window windows | grep -E 'mCurrentFocus|mFocusedApp' (MAC)

adb shell dumpsys window windows | find "mCurrentFocus" (WINDOWS)

 

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