Appium Setup

Mobile Automation with Appium

1. Android SDK
2. Android Device (configuration)
3. Eclipse / Java
4. Appium

Setting up Android SDK

Step 1: Open https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html

Step 2: Scroll to “Get just the command line tools”  

(* You can download Android Studio also instead of SDK Tools but for testing SDK tools is sufficient)

Step 3: Download SDK Tools for respective platform

Step 4: Extract download zip

Step 5: Open “cmd” and navigate to the tools folder in SDK.

Step 6: commands

1. Sdkmanager.bat --list
2. Sdkmanager.bat platforms;android-26
3. Sdkmanager.bat build-tools;26.0.3
4. sdkmanager.bat platform-tools

Step 7: set environment variable.

1. ANDROID_HOME    =    path to sdk folder
2. PATH  $ANDROID_HOME/build-tools/25.0.2;$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools;$ANDROID_HOME/tools;

* Note - Update path according your installation

Step 8. Close all CMD and start again. Execute adb device command. If you get error for adb then check installation.

Device Set Up configuration:

1. Enable developer option
2. Enable usb debugging
3. Connect device to computer via usb and check “adb devices” shows device connected.

Appium Set Up

1. Download and Install Node.js https://nodejs.org/en/
2. Open Node Js command prompt and execute below command
1. npm install appium -g
3. Verify appium installed with below command
1. appium -v

Locating elements for native app -

Locating Android elements - Id, Xpath

IOS - Name, Xpath

Automating already existing App using Appium.

Step 1:Get package name and activity from the Application.

I. Start app. Launch screen

Ii. Execute below 2 commands

adb shell

dumpsys window windows

Search for ‘mCurrentFocus=’  Get the package name /activity name (check snap)

Package name: com.android.settings

Activity name:com.android.settings.settings

Step 2.

Set both to desired capabilities

DesiredCapabilities capabilities=new DesiredCapabilities();
   capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "Your device Name");
   capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "com.android.settings");
   capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", "com.android.settings.Settings");

That’s all you need…Now you can create driver instance and use it for automation.