appium-with-python-tutorial

Appium

• https://appium.io/

Android Verison History

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history

Pre-requisite for Windows and MAC OSX:

• Python
• PyCharm / VSCode - https://code.visualstudio.com/download
• Java JDK 1.8 (and set JAVA_HOME env variable)
• NodeJS - https://nodejs.org/en/
• Android Studio (and set ANDROID_HOME env variable) - https://developer.android.com/studio
• Appium GUI / Desktop App - https://appium.io/
• Appium-Python-Client

brew install android-platform-tools

Useful mirroring tool for Android devices

brew install scrcpy

Connect your cellphone to the PC and run the command

scrcpy

Intro

Updating to Appium 2.0 Python client

pip install Appium-Python-Client==2.1.2

from appium import webdriver
import time

desired_caps = dict(
    deviceName="Android",
    platformName="Android",
    browserName="Chrome"
)

driver = webdriver.Remote("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub", desired_caps)

driver.get("http://google.com")
print(driver.title)
time.sleep(2)
driver.quit()

Different ways to starting appium server

Automating Native Apps

Automating Dialer App - Making a phone call

adb devices

adb shell

dumpsys window windows | grep -E 'mTopActivityComponent'

from appium import webdriver
import time

desired_caps = dict(
    deviceName="Android",
    platformName="Android",
    appPackage="com.android.dialer",
    appActivity=".BBKTwelveKeyDialer"
    
)

driver = webdriver.Remote("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub", desired_caps)

time.sleep(2)
driver.quit()

from appium import webdriver
import time

desired_caps = dict(
    deviceName="Android",
    platformName="Android",
    appPackage="com.zhiliaoapp.musically",
    appActivity="com.ss.android.ugc.aweme.main.MainActivity"
    
)

driver = webdriver.Remote("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub", desired_caps)

time.sleep(2)
driver.quit()