How to push app in background and launch from same screen in Appium with selenium

Question

Is there any way to do the following process in android Automation using Appium with android driver?

Press home button from some specific screen. Put app in backgrou

Answer 1

Both iOS and Android support the following methods :

(AppiumDriver)driver.runAppInBackground(10);//put app in background for 10 seconds
(AppiumDriver)driver.launchApp();//launch the app again

Hope it helps!