Category Archives: Technical

Preface: Dear Reader, please note that I will be explaining the details in layman terms so as to reach more audience who are very new to Android / iOS Automation. Prerequisites : In order to run the Code on your device – the phone must be in Developer mode. The Phone is converted into Developer mode byContinue reading “1. To identify your device and launch an application on Android Device through Appium”

The Differences are as Follows: RemoteWebDriver: This driver class comes directly from the upstream Selenium project. This is a pretty generic driver where initialising the driver means making network requests to a Selenium hub to start a driver session. Since Appium operates on the client-server model, Appium uses this to initialise a driver session. However,Continue reading “Difference Between AndroidDrive, iOSDriver and AppiumDriver”

To Automate Android and iOS we will be using Appium. To set up the Appium server on your site you will need the following to be installed on Your Machine : JDK You can get the latest JDK from the JDK – Java SE Development Kit 8u112 After Installing the package on to MAC Set JAVA_HOMEContinue reading “Android Automation Setup on Windows/ MAC: Requirements”

I have been lately exploring “Appium framework” and trying to explore its uses and working. Usually I have a habit of making notes of what ever I learn, this time I wanted to try something new by helping other by sharing my experience on the same. What will be covered in this column : Basics ofContinue reading “Android Automation Framework Development”

Open Terminal Confirm you have JDK by typing “which java”. It should show something like /usr/bin/java. Check you have the needed version of Java, by typing “java -version”. JAVA_HOME is essentially the full path of the directory that contains a sub-directory named bin which in turn contains the java For Mac OSX – it isContinue reading “Setting JAVA_HOME PATH on MAC”