Appium android driver.isAppInstalled & driver.installApp

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@rogertestevnt commented on Tue Mar 17 2015

Hi, I am using the code below to test an Android app using appium. However, the method driver.isAppInstalled does not return true when I do have the app installed in the device and the method
driver.installApp returns this error message:
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Unable to install [/walkman/apps/com.rdio.oi.android.ui-1.apk] to device with id [null]. Error [Error: spawn OK](WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Does anybody know how I can fix this issue?

### Code goes below

package dashboard.pageobjects.principal;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import java.net.URL;
import io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver;
import io.appium.java_client.AppiumSetting;
import io.appium.java_client.MobileElement;
import io.appium.java_client.SwipeElementDirection;
import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver;
import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidKeyCode;
import io.appium.java_client.remote.MobileCapabilityType;
import io.appium.java_client.remote.MobilePlatform;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class MainFlow {

AppiumDriver driver = null;
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = null;
WebDriverWait wait = null;

@BeforeClass
public void setUp() throws Exception {

    capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
    capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.PLATFORM_NAME,
            MobilePlatform.ANDROID);
    capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_NAME,
            "Android device");
    capabilities.setCapability("device", "CB5A1X07H");
    capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "com.sonyericsson.music");
    capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", ".MusicActivity");
    capabilities.setCapability("device-orientation", "portrait");
    capabilities.setCapability("locale", "en_US");
    capabilities.setCapability("language", "en");
    capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.NEW_COMMAND_TIMEOUT, 120);

    driver = new AndroidDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"),
            capabilities);
}

@AfterClass
public void tearDown() throws Exception {
    driver.quit();
}

@Test
public void test() throws InterruptedException {
    wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
    // By menu = By.className("android.widget.ImageButton");
    By disclaimer = By.id("com.sonyericsson.music:id/link");
    wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(disclaimer));
    driver.findElement(By.id("android:id/button1")).click();
    driver.swipe(20, 920, 890, 920, 0);
    if (driver.findElement(
            By.xpath("//android.widget.TextView[@text='Other Services']"))
            .isDisplayed());
    {
        //Install another app
        if(!driver.isAppInstalled("com.rdio.oi.android.ui"));
            //driver.installApp("apps/com.rdio.oi.android.ui-1.apk");
        driver.findElement(By.id("com.sonyericsson.music:id/artist2")).click();


    }

}

}

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@shivakrishnach31 commented on Wed May 13 2015

@jlipps , @Jonahss ,

I am able to remove app using removeApp() from my iPad Air, but unable to install App from web URL(where my App build generated) using installApp().

Getting org.openqa.selenium.remote.SessionNotFoundException: exception.

Appim log:
info: [debug] Responding to client with error: {"status":33,"value":{"message":"A new session could not be created. (Original error: Unable to install [com.shure.plus.channels] to device with id [188f6b571d77873782d16a972cff09253ded1f11]. Error [Error: Command failed: /bin/sh -c /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/build/fruitstrap/fruitstrap install --id 188f6b571d77873782d16a972cff09253ded1f11 --bundle "com.shure.plus.channels"\nAssertion failed: (access(app_path, F_OK) == 0), function main, file fruitstrap.c, line 718.\n])","origValue":"Unable to install [com.shure.plus.channels] to device with id [188f6b571d77873782d16a972cff09253ded1f11]. Error [Error: Command failed: /bin/sh -c /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/build/fruitstrap/fruitstrap install --id 188f6b571d77873782d16a972cff09253ded1f11 --bundle "com.shure.plus.channels"\nAssertion failed: (access(app_path, F_OK) == 0), function main, file fruitstrap.c, line 718.\n]"},"sessionId":null}
info: <-- POST /wd/hub/session 500 4871.054 ms - 974

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@wangyaolin commented on Tue Aug 11 2015

same problem here with using driver.isAppInstalled(). Can anybody help?

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@Jonahss commented on Tue Aug 11 2015

@shivakrishnach31 You need to push the app file to the device first (using pushFile) and then choose install. The appium capabilities can install an app from a URL, but that code isn't in the installApp command that I know of.

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@imurchie commented on Mon Feb 22 2016

Does this error (or these errors) still occur? Things are massively different now (no fruitstrap, etc.).

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