Appium - Introduction

-> Appium is mobile application software testing tools.

-> we can automate native app, Web app and Hybrid app by using Appium.

-> Its open source software automation tool which is useful to automate android and IOS platform apps.

-> Appium is cross-platform automation tool so we can write automation tests and run against IOS and Android.


Multiple Platforms Support

Appium support bellow given different platforms.

Android
IOS
FirefoxOS



Multiple Languages Support

Appium supports bellow given languages with the Selenium WebDriver API and language-specific client libraries.

Java
Objective-C
JavaScript with Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Clojure
Perl



Limitations Of Appium

There are few limitation in appium right now.

For Android, No Support for Android API level < 17.
Script execution is very slow on IOS platform.
Gestures support is limited.
No support for Toast messages.


Appuium supports only Android 17+ API level version only.


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What is Android SDK


-> Androd SDK is software development kit which enables to create application for android platform.

For Example, If you want to create any android software games then we need Android SDK.

-> Also its provides ability to create emulators to test new created games or any other android apps.

-> By using appium we can create and run automation tests for native apps and web apps in android device or emulators. But we need Android SDK is pre-requisite to run tests on android platform using Appium.


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Difference between simulator and emulator


The basic difference is Emulator runs for Android OS (Samsung galaxy,htc,motorola,etc,.) but simulator runs for Mac (iOS) iPhone 3g,4,4s,iPod.


Device is Emulator
Software is simulator