Appium mobile automation
  • About the Book
  • Introduction to Mobile Test Automation
  • Pre-requisites for Appium Verification
  • What is Appium
    • Appium 1.6.0
  • Installation Instructions
    • Installing Android SDK
    • Installing Appium using app
    • Install Appium using npm
    • Installing an App on Emulator
  • Appium For Beginners
    • Understanding Desired Capabilities
    • Desired Capabilities for Android
    • Cucumber-JVM-Appium - Gradle Project
    • Start Appium Server
  • Write your first Android Test
    • How to use UiAutomatorViewer
    • Appium Inspector
  • Execution of Android tests
    • Execute on GenyMotion Emulator
    • Execute on Real Device
  • Appium Advanced
    • How to automate gestures
    • How to Change contexts
    • Remote Debugging using chrome
    • Running multiple Appium Server for parallel execution
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  1. Installation Instructions

Installing Appium using app

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Download the Appium installer from the below mentioned location. Once done extract it and install the app.

https://github.com/appium/appium/releases

You can select the Android icon from the top and click on Launch.

Once the Appium server is running you will see some logs in the app screen or alternately hit the below url to check the status.

http://localhost:4723/wd/hub/status

Appium can also be run via npm install. For this you would need node.js and npm version (0.10 or greater). In order to verify if the appium is installed correctly and it's dependencies run the command

appium-doctor

This command can be supplied with flag --android to verify all the dependencies are set up properly.

The appium clients are simple extension to the WebDriver client.