- JDK
- Minimum JDK version: 11
- Set JAVA_HOME environment variable
- You can install JDK from here: https://adoptopenjdk.net/
- Setup the Android environment for test execution:
- Set ANDROID_HOME environment variable
- Refer to this post for instructions how to automatically setup your environment - https://applitools.com/blog/automatic-appium-setup/
- Additional References:
- Setup Android Command-line tools and SDK - https://developer.android.com/studio#command-tools
- Install appium 2.0 - http://appium.io/docs/en/2.0/quickstart/install/
- Install appium-device-farm and appium-dashboard:
- appium plugin install --source=npm appium-device-farm
- appium plugin install --source=npm appium-dashboard
- For additional information refer - https://github.com/AppiumTestDistribution/appium-device-farm
- Appium Desktop App is a great way to identify locators, and the recorder is quite helpful to quickly identify multiple locators for your tests - https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/releases/tag/v1.20.2. You can also use Katalon Studio for locator identification (especially helpful for Windows platform)
- To verify appium installation is successful, run
appium-doctor- it should not report any errors - To install reportportal on local machine, refer to https://reportportal.io/installation. (Docker setup is the easiest way to proceed).