Android app can not be brought to foreground on appium2

The problem

Android app can not be brought to foreground on appium2 from background, which works on appium1.

Environment

• Appium version (or git revision) that exhibits the issue: v2.0.0-beta.43
• Last Appium version that did not exhibit the issue (if applicable): v1.23
• Desktop OS/version used to run Appium: MacOS Monterey 12.5.1 M1
• Node.js version (unless using Appium.app|exe): v18.8.0
• Npm or Yarn package manager:
• Mobile platform/version under test:
• Real device or emulator/simulator: Redmi Note8 (Android 9) and Pixel 2 (Android 11)
• Appium CLI or Appium.app|exe:

Details

We tried to launch and bring the Android Settings app to foreground, but it failed if the app was already in the background. Another wrong app will be started and brought to foreground.

Instead, if we manually killed the Settings app before execution. It will be brought to foreground, even if there’s another app already on the foreground.

By the way, right now it seems the shouldTerminateApp does not work on Anroid, just leaving the app as is after the test run. Is there another capability to handle this?

Kindly please advise, thanks a lot in advance!

Link to Appium logs

https://gist.github.com/bswhb/6c4b5c05d1acaf3f718b577725d58588

[StephanB75]

Do you use driver.activateApp(“com.android.settings”); and driver.terminateApp(“com.android.settings”);

This work for me with appium 2.0 ( but only used in emulators)

[bswhb]

thanks for the info and issue closed