Appium - DnavaIC/STD-Automation-testing-icsecurity GitHub Wiki

Appium installation

  1. Install Node JS

  2. Install Python

  3. Installing Appium is as easy as running a single NPM command:

    npm i --location=global appium

  4. Check your installation running appium command and you should see some output like this:

    [Appium] Welcome to Appium v2.0.0

  5. If all your Appium installation looks ok, run the command:

    appium driver install uiautomator2

    output:

    Attempting to find and install driver 'uiautomator2'
✔ Installing 'uiautomator2' using NPM install spec 'appium-uiautomator2-driver'
Driver [email protected] successfully installed
- automationName: UiAutomator2
- platformNames: ["Android"]

  6. Now, start the Appium server again (run appium), and you should see that the newly-installed driver is listed as available:

    output:

[Appium] Available drivers:
[Appium]   - [email protected] (automationName 'UiAutomator2')