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Appium installation and configuration.

This steps are adapted to MacOSX, running Appium test for Android and iOS emulator.

Install NodeJS.

Download the LTS version here: https://nodejs.org/es/download/

Or install node with Homebrew:

brew install node

  • We suggest install version: v10.6.0.

Install Carthage

brew install carthage

Install the latest version of Appium Server (command line):

npm install -g appium --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root

To install a concrete version you can use:

npm install -g appium@1.12.1 --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root

  • We suggest install version: 1.12.1.

The --unsafe-perm=true and --allow-root are necessary sometimes.

To check the Appium version installed, you need to run the command:

appium -v

Install Appium Doctor

Appium Doctor is a library that check if everything you need to start with Appium is properly installed. You can use it with Android and iOS.

Install Appium Doctor using Homebrew:

npm install -g appium-doctor

Check if everything you need to start with Appium and Android is correct:

appium-doctor --android --yes

Check if everything you need to start with Appium and iOS is correct:

appium-doctor --ios --yes

Install WebDriverAgent.

The WebDriverAgent is already installed when you installed Appium, but we need to configure it first in order to be able to use it.

URL of the project: https://github.com/facebook/WebDriverAgent

To configure the WebDriverAgent project you need to:

Go to Appium-XCUITest and WebDriverAgent folder:

cd "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-xcuitest-driver/WebDriverAgent/"

Create the following folder:

mkdir -p Resources/WebDriverAgent.bundle

Execute bootstrap script:

./Scripts/bootstrap.sh

To configure the WebDriverAgent project, you need to follow the instruction here

Install the libimobiledevice library.

brew install libimobiledevice --HEAD

Install ideviceinstaller, only works for iOS 9.

brew install ideviceinstaller

Install ios-deploy

npm install -g ios-deploy --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root

Install xcpretty

sudo gem install xcpretty

Install appium-ios-driver

npm install appium-ios-driver

Install the latest version of Appium Desktop.

If you prefer to have the Appium Desktop version, you can download it here: https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/releases

Running Appium.

To starts Appium you just have to type appium in a console and Appium process will start up.

appium [Appium] Welcome to Appium v1.12.1 [Appium] Appium REST http interface listener started on 0.0.0.0:4723

Stop Appium

To stop Appium on your console, you need to type killall node and the Appium process will stop.

[Appium] Received SIGTERM - shutting down