Appium with C#-"An unknown server-side error occurred"- Cannot find apk location

[YanivSternQA]

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• [V ] I have verified that my issue does not occur with Appium and should be investigated as an Appium Desktop issue

The problem

I am trying to setup & run appium (desktop OR CLI) via VisualStudio (C#) and i'm getting this error: Appium Log: [Appium] Appium v1.18.2 creating new AndroidUiautomator2Driver (v1.56.1) session [debug] [BaseDriver] W3C capabilities and MJSONWP desired capabilities were provided [debug] [BaseDriver] Creating session with W3C capabilities: { [debug] [BaseDriver] "alwaysMatch": { [debug] [BaseDriver] "appium:UIAutomator2": "Android", [debug] [BaseDriver] "appium:deviceName": "Pixel 3a", [debug] [BaseDriver] "appium:app": "‪C:\Users\Yaniv\MMApp.apk", [debug] [BaseDriver] "appium:chromedriverExecutable": "‪C:\TestLogs\chromedriver.exe", [debug] [BaseDriver] "platformName": "Android" [debug] [BaseDriver] }, [debug] [BaseDriver] "firstMatch": [ [debug] [BaseDriver] {} [debug] [BaseDriver] ] [debug] [BaseDriver] } [BaseDriver] The following capabilities were provided, but are not recognized by Appium: [BaseDriver] UIAutomator2 [BaseDriver] Session created with session id: ce300ce7-ebeb-4cc9-9421-a0e0aa896993 [debug] [UiAutomator2] Deleting UiAutomator2 session [debug] [BaseDriver] Event 'newSessionStarted' logged at 1601791967183 (09:12:47 GMT+0300 (Israel Daylight Time)) [debug] [W3C] Encountered internal error running command: Error: The application at '‪C:\Users\Yaniv\MMApp.apk' does not exist or is not accessible [debug] [W3C] at C:\Users\Yaniv\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appium\node_modules\appium-base-driver\lib\basedriver\helpers.js:235:13 [debug] [W3C] Destroying socket connection [HTTP] <-- POST /wd/hub/session 500 445 ms - 735 [HTTP]

The apk path: '‪C:\Users\Yaniv\MMApp.apk' is exist for 100% because if i'm running appium desktop without VS - it identifies the file. Also tested with file location- copy&paste leads to the apk.

Can anyone help me with this? My code in VS: ` public void Setup() { var appPath = @"‪C:\Users\Yaniv\MMApp.apk";

        var driverOptions = new AppiumOptions();
        driverOptions.AddAdditionalCapability(AutomationName.AndroidUIAutomator2, "Android");
        driverOptions.AddAdditionalCapability(MobileCapabilityType.PlatformName, "Android");
        driverOptions.AddAdditionalCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DeviceName, "Pixel 3a");
        driverOptions.AddAdditionalCapability(MobileCapabilityType.App, appPath);

        driverOptions.AddAdditionalCapability("chromedriverExecutable", @"‪C:\TestLogs\chromedriver.exe");

        _driver = new AndroidDriver<AndroidElement>(new Uri("http://localhost:4723/wd/hub"), driverOptions);



        _driver.FindElementByXPath("//android.widget.TextView[@text='User Name']").Click();

    }`

Environment

• I am running Appium Desktop version <1.18.2.0>.
• I am on (pick one):
  • [ ] Mac
  • [V] Windows
  • [ ] Linux

[KazuCocoa]

https://discuss.appium.io/ also may help...

[YanivSternQA]

@KazuCocoa , Couldn't find this type of issue in the appium support.

[KazuCocoa]

I mean you can post the environment issue to the form. I do not have good experience with VS, so I cannot help it..