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Running appctrl start to Install and Start an Application

Scenarios

Install an application on a cloud phone and start the application.

Prerequisites

The TAR package of the application has been pushed to the cloud phone server.

Command

appctrl start {package name}

Example command: appctrl start com.huawei.xxxx

For service applications, there is no entry activity. You need to run appctrl install to install the applications and then run am to start their frontend and backend services.

Parent topic: appctrl Commands