Appium terminate vs close

Question

In Appium, what is the technical difference between the driver.terminate_app(bundleId) and driver.close_app() methods?

Answer 1

driver.terminate_app(bundleId)->

Terminates an existing application on the device. If the application is not running then the returned result will be false, otherwise true.

Supported arguments

bundleId: The bundle identifier of the application, which is going to be terminated. Mandatory argument.

Where driver.close_app() is actually used to end the session of the driver with the app. It is mostly written in the @AfterTest method that means after the executions of all of your tests the instance of the driver should be safely closed.

See the below code for driver.close()

public class Github1298Test {
  @BeforeMethod
  public void setUp() {
    //initiate your driver instance 
   //give all capabilities 

  }

 @Test
 public void tearDown() {
    driver.close_app();
 }

}