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app_boot

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Start an Android emulator by its AVD's name, or an iOS simulator by its name or UDID, and wait until it has booted — adb sees it and Android says boot completed, or simctl's boot status returns — answering with its serial or UDID. One already running is said to be, not started again. An emulator cold-boots, headless unless window is true; its output goes to a log under ~/.mobium/emulator. Real phones are not booted: they are somebody's.

Changes the device, the app or the session: readOnlyHint is false.

Arguments​

NameTypeRequiredWhat it is
namestringyesAn AVD's name (Android), or a simulator's name or UDID (iOS).
windowbooleanShow the emulator's window. Default false: headless.

Examples​

Each is the arguments of a tools/call request; the first is shown whole.

Boot an emulator by its AVD's name, and wait until it is up​

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "app_boot",
    "arguments": {
      "name": "mobium-test"
    }
  }
}