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

This will navigate to the Gmail App while executing your Appium script. You Just Change the package name & activity of your app.

Activity activity = new Activity("com.google.android.gm", "com.google.android.gm.ConversationListActivityGmail");
activity.setStopApp(false);
((AndroidDriver) driver).startActivity(activity);