Error: New app path Browser did not have extension .apk

The problem

My tests were working perfectly fine on grid/device/emulator till 1.4.13. trying to upgrade Appium but no matter what browserName i pass I always get below error.

Trying to run test on Android Browser with android version as 4.4.2 Appium java-client version: 4.1.2 Appium app version: 1.5.3 using Android Emulator OS: OSX 10.9.5

DesiredCapabilities caps = DesiredCapabilities.android(); caps.setCapability("appiumVersion", "1.5.3"); caps.setCapability("deviceName","emulator-5554"); caps.setCapability("browserName", ""); caps.setCapability("platformVersion","4.4.2"); caps.setCapability("platformName","Android"); WebDriver driver = null; driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://localhost:4723/wd/hub"), caps); driver.get("https://www.google.com/");

Server Log: [HTTP] --> POST /wd/hub/session {“desiredCapabilities”:{“app”:“Browser”,“appiumVersion”:“1.5.3”,“platformVersion”:“4.4.2”,“browserName”:“”,“platformName”:“Android”,“version”:“”,“deviceName”:“emulator-5554”,“platform”:“ANDROID”}} [MJSONWP] Calling AppiumDriver.createSession() with args: [{“app”:“Browser”,"appiumVe… [Appium] Creating new SelendroidDriver session [Appium] Capabilities: [Appium] app: ‘Browser’ [Appium] appiumVersion: ‘1.5.3’ [Appium] platformVersion: ‘4.4.2’ [Appium] browserName: ‘’ [Appium] platformName: ‘Android’ [Appium] version: ‘’ [Appium] deviceName: ‘emulator-5554’ [Appium] platform: ‘ANDROID’ [Appium] automationName: ‘Selendroid’ [Appium] noReset: true [Appium] dontStopAppOnReset: true [BaseDriver] The following capabilities were provided, but are not recognized by appium: appiumVersion, version, platform. [BaseDriver] Session created with session id: 093020f6-1b1b-40a2-991c-77444c4b4e4f [BaseDriver] Using local app ‘Browser’ [debug] [Selendroid] Deleting Selendroid session [MJSONWP] Encountered internal error running command: Error: New app path Browser did not have extension .apk at Object.configureApp$ (lib/basedriver/helpers.js:41:11) at tryCatch (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:67:40) at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke as _invoke at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.prototype.(anonymous function) as next at invoke (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:136:37) at enqueueResult (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:185:17) at new Promise (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/node_modules/core-js/library/modules/es6.promise.js:197:7) at AsyncIterator.enqueue (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:184:12) at AsyncIterator.prototype.(anonymous function) as next at Object.runtime.async (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:209:12) at Object.configureApp (lib/basedriver/helpers.js:22:21) at SelendroidDriver.createSession$ (lib/driver.js:85:42) at tryCatch (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:67:40) at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke as _invoke at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.prototype.(anonymous function) as next at GeneratorFunctionPrototype.invoke (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/regenerator/runtime.js:136:37) at run (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/node_modules/core-js/library/modules/es6.promise.js:104:47) at /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/node_modules/core-js/library/modules/es6.promise.js:115:28 at flush (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/babel-runtime/node_modules/core-js/library/modules/$.microtask.js:19:5) at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:67:7) at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9) [HTTP] <-- POST /wd/hub/session 500 62 ms - 185

[mykola-mokhnach]

Probably this happens because you try to use Selendroid as main driver instead of the default one. Anyway, try to set app property to null explicitly and keep the browserName set to Browser

[mykola-mokhnach]

Have you tried to set browserName capability to Browser or Chrome like it is described here? http://appium.io/slate/en/master/?java#python-example