Note: All of the above settings are also available as server arguments by typing " appium -help" in command line Summary We can change the Xcode version if we have multiple on our machine during debugging.įinally appium server itself has settings that can be changed as below app if neededĪdvanced settings is as below.
#Start appium server android
This way we are sure to use only one version of android sdk and can make updates to that one only. Similary in advanced settings, we pointed the Android sdk to a specific location instead of the default, which appium server might look to. Please play with different settings to get comfortable. It is beyond the scope of the intent of this book to go into each field, however we would like to mention that we can set each of the field value programmatically (which we will see during scripting). Summary is to say that we should get comfortable starting appium server from command line Appium Android SettingsĪppium server provides quite many settings for android. Another reason is to be able to progrmmatically (through bash or powershell scripts) kick off the server (For eg.
#Start appium server code
Cmd is also necessary so that we can code away the process of starting the server. While GUI is one way to start appium server, for CI, we need to be able to start the server from command line. In the above case, appium source was downloaded to /Users/pmacharl/gitprojects/ appium Server Command line The developer mode enables us to point to use appium source as follows: A bug that New Xcode breaks and that was fixed using appium source is here To being, it is always advisable to run the " appium doctor", which does basic checks on availability of Xcode / Android environment (Clicking the stethescope icon will run appium doctor from UI)īecause of incompatibilities between items in the tuple, we should get comfortable playing and installing multiple appium versions of serversįor example, we had versions 1.4.8,1.4.11 and 1.4.13 (source) while writing this book. Hence certifying/validating and running the automation tests are heavily dependent on the environment clarity.įor Appium environment too, the above settings are necessary and appium server can set most of those values. But that is not gauranteed to be the same on another developer's machine. Sure we can go ahead and test on a developer environment.
Unless we are clear about this - we are not sure "what" we are testing. Also have clarity around how much of "backward compatibility" vs.
iOS world)Īs you can see setting up a build environment is really dependent on how much clarity we have on the above questions. What mobile devices (Android world vs.What version of Xcode and command line tools.The permutations and combinations increase and hence often the questions that comes up for an automation engineer in terms of application compatibility are: Mobile environment set up is a little more complex than that of a web development environment because of the dependencies on various sdks, emulator/simulators and their versions. Appium Server Configuration Appium Doctor