Appium-chromedriver custom profile

Question

Is there a way to use the custom profile on android with appium and chromedriver? I am trying to define the ChromeOptions as follows chromeOptions = {'args': ['user-data-dir=/data/user/0/com.android.chrome/app_chrome/']} After I launch chrome with the use of chromedriver and check the chrome://version I see profile path as /data/data/com.android.chrome/app_chrome/Default and there is no user signed in to chrome.

This is the log for appium starting

[debug] [BaseDriver] Creating session with W3C capabilities: {
[debug] [BaseDriver]   "alwaysMatch": {
[debug] [BaseDriver]     "platformName": "Android",
[debug] [BaseDriver]     "browserName": "Chrome",
[debug] [BaseDriver]     "appium:platformVersion": "11",
[debug] [BaseDriver]     "appium:deviceName": "992AY188TB",
[debug] [BaseDriver]     "appium:chromedriverExecutable": "/Users/chromedriver",
[debug] [BaseDriver]     "appium:automationName": "UiAutomator2",
[debug] [BaseDriver]     "appium:showChromedriverLog": "true",
[debug] [BaseDriver]     "appium:newCommandTimeout": "3000",
[debug] [BaseDriver]     "appium:noReset": "true",
[debug] [BaseDriver]     "appium:fullReset": "false",
[debug] [BaseDriver]     "appium:chromeOptions": {
[debug] [BaseDriver]       "args": [
[debug] [BaseDriver]         "user-data-dir=/data/user/0/com.android.chrome/app_chrome/"
[debug] [BaseDriver]       ]
[debug] [BaseDriver]     }
[debug] [BaseDriver]   },
[debug] [BaseDriver]   "firstMatch": [
[debug] [BaseDriver]     {}
[debug] [BaseDriver]   ]
[debug] [BaseDriver] }

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65904668/appium-chromedriver-custom-profile

Answer 1

You should add chrome options via Appium capabilities, use chromeOptions.

Keep in mind, not all the options are accepted on Android, you can find supported in code here