APK sign check does not work on Windows due to windowsVerbatimArguments

[ynerant]

Hello! I'm having trouble running Appium on my Windows computer. When I launch Appium to start an app, an error occurs while verifying the APK's signature:

Error: Could not find or load main class Files\Java\jdk-25.0.2\bin\java.exe

The full command was 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-25.0.2\bin\java.exe' -Xmx1024M -Xss1m -jar C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\build-tools\36.1.0\lib\apksigner.jar verify --print-certs C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp\ApiDemos-debug.apk, which works correctly when run on its own.

Afer some research, I found that the problem was caused by the windowsVerbatimArguments setting, which has been automatically set to true for the past four years on Windows: 926b598

I didn't understand this decision, removing the quotes causes issueswhen parsing the arguments, especially when the path to the binary contains spaces.

I think that the issue was not discovered before because the teen_process module supports the windowsVerbatimArguments only for one week:
appium/node-teen_process@7db347d#diff-915c0270f47fcb8047102dd461bb8aa59db3233ac9018c9f442262305e41b8cdR174

So, why is this setting automatically set to true by default in Windows? Shouldn't it be removed? If not, how can I properly resolve my issue without modifying the code?

Thanks!

[mykola-mokhnach]

Thanks for the report @ynerant
Could you please check if #868 works for you?

[ynerant]

It works fine for me, thanks!