AndroidĪndroid is a mobile operating system developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. For the inverse, see Emulators on Android OS. If you like, you can also use Appium Inspector do define elements hierarchy and get xpath of elements using their attributes.This page is about emulating Android on other computers, like desktops. The main advantages of using UIAutomatorviewer is:Įxternal buttons on the device can be used Ability to use device’s external buttons This tool allows to inspect the UI of an application in order to find the layout hierarchy, to view the properties associated with the controls and to expose the Id and other attributes of the element. It is the part of Android Studio that was set up in step 2. Step 5: UIAutomatorviewerįor analysis of UI of application UIAutomatorviewer could be used. Also class like Appium Setup should be created with DesiredCapabilities and initialisation of AndroidDriver. If you use maven don’t forget to add Selenium, TestNG and Appium to dependencies.
Make sure that you select the same version of device as for Android SDK Manager To select needed virtual device login with the user id and password, that you can register with the Genymotion website. Create an account and Download Genymotion package for Ubuntu To be confident that this particular emulator satisfies your expectations we recommend you to select free “Basic” one and to try use it.
On the other hand, Genymotion has lots of functionality and even supports GPS and wifi Internet in real time.įirst of all install Virtualbox via Ubuntu Software Center on your workstation On the one hand, it is very fast, simple and easy to use. Step 3: Android EmulatorĪs emulator we prefer to use Genymotion. After the first run of Android SDK Manager select necessary packages for needed Android versions. Select instructions for Linux and then follow them step-by-step. It would take about 25 minutes or even more to install depending on your workstation power.Īfter a successful node installation Appium can be installed:ĭownload and setup Android SDK. Now we can install node using linux brew: brew updateĪnd fill free to make a cup of tea.
zshrc: export PATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"Įxport MANPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/man:$MANPATH"Įxport INFOPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/info:$INFOPATH"`
Paste the command below to terminal: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL )"Īdd to your. Sudo apt-get install build-essential curl git python-setuptools ruby Do not install nodejs via apt-get, which will need sudo rights and appium will not work if node is installed as sudo user.įirst of all - required dependencies.
The best way to install npm on Linux is to use brew (the Mac OS package manager for Linux). To install Appium you will need npm - default package manager for the JavaScript runtime environment Node.js. Appium uses WebDriver and DesiredCapabilities, the same as Selenium. Appium uses JSON Wire Protocol (JSONWP) for interaction with Android and iOS apps via Selenium WebDriver API. Appium supports such platforms as iOS, Android, FirefoxOS.
It could be used to automate any mobile app from any language and any test framework, with full access to back-end APIs and DBs from test code.