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#Windows Setup

Appium on Windows supports both Windows and Android app automation!

See Windows App Testing for more details.

Running Appium on Windows

Setup

To get started:

  1. Download latest node and npm tools MSI (version >= 6.0). The npm and nodejs paths should be in your PATH environment variable.
  2. Download latest Java JDK here (accept the license agreement first). Set 'JAVA_HOME' to be your JDK path. The bin in that directory should be added to your PATH variable.
  3. Install the Android SDK. Set ANDROID_HOME to be your Android SDK path and add the tools and platform-tools folders to your PATH variable.
  4. Install Apache Ant or use the one that comes with the Android Windows SDK in the eclipse\plugins folder. Be sure to add the folder containing Ant to your PATH variable.
  5. Install Apache Maven and set the M2HOME and M2 environment variables. Set M2_HOME to the directory maven is installed in, and set M2 to the bin in that directory. Add the path you used for M2 to your PATH.
  6. Open admin cmd
  7. run command: npm install -g appium
  8. run command: appium
  9. Run a test from any Appium client (including Visual Studio)

Additional Setup for Android App Testing

  1. To run tests on Windows, you will need to have the Android Emulator booted or an Android Device connected that is running an AVD with API Level 17 orgreater. Then run Appium on the command line (via the appium command)
  2. Within test script, change value of 'platformVersion' to correspond with emulator version (i.e. '4.4.4')
  3. Within test script, change value of 'app' to PATH('path of .apk') and ensure the entire path (including close parenthesis) is on one line

Additional Setup for Windows App Testing

  1. To test a Windows app, make sure you have turned developer mode on.

Running Appium

See the server documentation for all the command line arguments.

Notes

  • URL endpoint has to append "/wd/hub"
  • DesiredCapabilities:
    • platformName = "Windows"
    • deviceName = "WindowsPC"
  • On windows run appium.app as administrator or when running from source you need to run cmd as administrator.
  • You must supply the --no-reset or --full-reset flags for Android to work on Windows.
  • There exists a hardware accelerated emulator for Android, it has it's own limitations. For more information you can check out this page.
  • Make sure that hw.battery=yes in your AVD's config.ini.