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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. Open admin cmd prompt
  3. Run the command npm install -g appium which will install Appium from NPM
  4. To start Appium, you can now simply run appium from the prompt.
  5. Follow the directions below for setup for either Android or Windows app testing.
  6. Run a test from any Appium client.

Additional Setup for Android App Testing

  1. Download the 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.
  2. Install the Android SDK. Set the ANDROID_HOME environment variable to be your Android SDK path and add the tools and platform-tools folders to your PATH variable.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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 or greater. Then run Appium on the command line (via the appium command)
  6. Your test script should ensure that the platformVersion capability corresponds to the emulator or device version you are testing, and that the app capability is an absolute path to the .apk file of the Android app.

Additional Setup for Windows App Testing

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

(see the Windows app testing doc for instructions on how to run Windows app tests)

Running Appium

See the server documentation for all the command line arguments.

  • On Windows run Appium.exe as an administrator, or when running from source you need to run cmd as an 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.