Add option to not uninstall in flutter test command #166709

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2. darshankawar commented on Apr 8, 2025

   

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   @ScorpiosCrux
   I see that while running flutter drive, there's an option as below:

   --[no-]keep-app-running                                  Will keep the
                                                                Flutter application
                                                                running when done
                                                                testing.
                                                                By default,
                                                                "flutter drive"
                                                                stops the
                                                                application after
                                                                tests are finished,
                                                                and
                                                                "--keep-app-running
                                                                " overrides this.
   

   But I don't see the same for flutter test. Maybe you can try as mentioned in this comment and instead of flutter uninstall, try flutter install to see if it helps in your case or not ?
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4. ScorpiosCrux commented on Apr 8, 2025

   

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   flutter install actually tries to uninstall the app first. This does not help
   adb uninstall app.name Also runs into the same issue.
   flutter run does not try to uninstall, but it does install the application correctly.
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9. bkonyi commented on Jul 29, 2025

   

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   This seems like a valid use case, but I don't think we're going to have cycles in the near future to work on this. I'd be happy to review and accept a PR if you're willing to contribute the change!
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