How to start an application using android ADB tools?
adb shellam start -n com.package.name/com.package.name.ActivityNameOr you can use this directly:
adb shell am start -n com.package.name/com.package.name.ActivityNameYou can also specify actions to be filter by your intent-filters:
am start -a com.example.ACTION_NAME -n com.package.name/com.package.name.ActivityName
It's possible to run application specifying package name only using monkey tool by follow this pattern:
adb shell monkey -p your.app.package.name -c android.intent.category.LAUNCHER 1Command is used to run app using monkey tool which generates random input for application. The last part of command is integer which specify the number of generated random input for app. In this case the number is 1, which in fact is used to launch the app (icon click).