Mobile Browser Automation with Appium on Android Emulator

Overview :-

Appium is an open source test automation tool for mobile applications. It allows you to test all the three types of mobile applications: native, hybrid and mobile web.It also allows you to run the automated tests on actual devices, emulators and simulators.

If you want to start mobile automation on Android device/emulator, first you must need to setup the Android SDK on your machine and set the paths in environment variables.Then you can create your own emulator and run the test scripts on it.

Pre-requisites :-

1. JDK installation

• Java Installation on Windows

2. Android SDK installation and Emulator Creation

• Android SDK Installation & Android Emulator Creation

3. Appium installation

• By node.js (Backend)
• Appium Installation on Windows
• Appium Installation on Mac

• By Appium.exe (Desktop UI)
• Appium installation with desktop UI

Prerequisted Jars:

• java-client.jar - For Appium
• selenium-server-standalone.jar - For webdriver capabilities
• commons-validator.jar - if want to run appium server programatically

Example : 

To run your test on android emulator browser, you have to pass the desire capabilities to the appium driver. If chrome browser is installed in the emulator, pass Browser_Name as "Chrome" or pass "Browser" to run on default browser. Before execute this program make sure appium server is running on your machine.

public class WebTest {

static AppiumDriver driver;

public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

    DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
    capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "android emulator");
    capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "Chrome");
    capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.VERSION, "8.0");
    capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "android");
    try {
driver = new AndroidDriver(new URL("http://0.0.0.0:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
    driver.get("https://www.google.co.in");
    driver.findElement(By.name("q")).sendKeys("Welcome");
    System.out.println("done");
}
}