I am using webdriver.io and Appium to test my apps on Android. I am hitting an issue regarding sessions in Chrome. When I login to a website and close Chrome and re-open it, I can see my session. When I do the same with Appium, it cleans all the sessions between app starts. I tried different options but none of them worked.

Here is the example workflow to login to a website and to open Chrome again.

const driver = await remote(
  {
    capabilities: {
    'appium:waitForIdleTimeout': 100,
    'appium:appPackage': 'com.android.chrome',
    'appium:appActivity': 'com.google.android.apps.chrome.Main',
    'appium:noReset': true,
    'appium:fullReset': false,
    'appium:allowTestPackages': true,
    'appium:automationName': 'UiAutomator2',
    'appium:deviceName': 'Android',
    'appium:newCommandTimeout': 3600,
    platformName: 'Android',
    },
    hostname: "localhost",
    logLevel: "info",
    port: 4723,
  })

await driver.url('');

await driver.$(`//*[@resource-id='com.android.chrome:id/signin_fre_dismiss_button']`).click();

await driver.switchContext("WEBVIEW_chrome")

const username =  driver.$(`//*[@name='acct']`)
await username.waitForDisplayed({timeout: 10 * 1000})
await username.click()
await username.setValue("myuser")

const password =  driver.$(`//*[@name='pw']`)
await password.click()
await password.setValue("mypassword")

const loginButton = driver.$(`/html/body/form[1]/input`)
await loginButton.click()

const me = driver.$(`//*[@id='me']`)
await me.waitForDisplayed({timeout: 10 * 1000})

// so that we can see the UI
await driver.pause(5 * 1000)

// Open Chrome again and check if the session stays or not
const driver2 = await remote(
  {
    capabilities: {
    'appium:waitForIdleTimeout': 100,
    'appium:appPackage': 'com.android.chrome',
    'appium:appActivity': 'com.google.android.apps.chrome.Main',
    'appium:noReset': true,
    'appium:fullReset': false,
    'appium:allowTestPackages': true,
    'appium:automationName': 'UiAutomator2',
    'appium:deviceName': 'Android',
    'appium:newCommandTimeout': 3600,
    platformName: 'Android',
    },
    hostname: "localhost",
    logLevel: "info",
    port: 4723,
  })


await driver2.url('');