Appium : Getting Started

Appium

• Install the desktop appium
• download appium java binding io.appium:java-client:7.3.0
• Getting started code

  DesiredCapabilities desiredCapabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
          desiredCapabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.PLATFORM_VERSION, "6.0.1");
          desiredCapabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.PLATFORM_NAME, "Android");
          desiredCapabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_NAME, "840f9a04");
          desiredCapabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.AUTOMATION_NAME, "appium");
          desiredCapabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.APP, "C:\\Users\\sapan\\Downloads\\fbox.apk");
  ​
          URL url = new URL("http://0.0.0.0:4723/wd/hub");
  ​
          AndroidDriver driver = new AndroidDriver(url, desiredCapabilities);
          String sessionId = driver.getSessionId().toString();
  ​

REFERENCE

Capabilities

http://appium.io/docs/en/writing-running-appium/caps/index.html

• Appium drivers

  Capability	Description	Values
  automationName	Which automation engine to use	Appium (default) or UiAutomator2 or Espresso for Android or XCUITest for iOS or YouiEngine for application built with You.i Engine

• Important capabilities

  {
      "platformName": "iOS",
      "platformVersion": "11.0",
      "deviceName": "iPhone 7",
      "automationName": "UiAutomator2",
      "app": "/path/to/my.app"
  }