Mobile Browser Automation with Appium on Android Real Device

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 attach the device and run on it.

Pre-requisites :-

1. JDK installation

• Java Installation on Windows

2. Android SDK installation and Set Paths in Environment variables

• Android SDK Installation

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