Install Appium : Part 1

To test mobile mobile app, there are various framework available. Appium is one of them, Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid and mobile web apps.
It drives iOS, Android, and Windows apps using the WebDriver protocol.

In this Part We will download all the required software and library.

#Download JDK

1.Go to oracle site.
2. click Java download.
3.New Page will open.
4.Accept the license agreement and download the jdk depending on your os.
like : jdk-8u131-windows-x64.exe

5. Now Install the JDK
6. Now Configure the JDK environment by its install directory to the PATH and Add JAVA_HOME variable

# Download Appium

1.Go to site http://appium.io/

2.Click Download Appium on the site.

3.It will navigate to the Github download page. Click the setup depending upon your OS. In my case it is appium-desktop-Setup-1.1.0-beta.4.exe

4.Now install the downloaded setup.(double click the downloaded file to install it).

# Download Libraries

1.On appium homepage click the download tab

2.Now the select the language library (java).

3.Now the maven repo will open , click the jar link.

5.Now the next part is to download the Selenium library.
6.Navigate to selenium site the click on download. and download the standalone library.

7.Now you have both the Selenium library and Appium client.

#Download Android SDK

1.Go to android developer site. click here

2. Scroll down the page to Get just the command line tools and click to download the sdk for windows.

3.wait for sdk to download.