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

You can use this snippet of code

((AppiumDriver)driver).runAppInBackground(Duration.ofSeconds(10));
((StartsActivity)driver).currentActivity();

If it is not working then please update your appium with the latest version and try with the same snippet of code.

Thanks