New to Appium, try to work Appium on Android

[Eric Z]

Hi chaps, thanks for the awesome Appium to make the cross platform automation truly possible and feasible! 

I am new to the tool, and trying to work the Appium on Android. I have Node.js set up on a Win 7 machine with Appium listening on the 4723 successfully. The Android emulator is also running on the same machine. In order to have a quick glance the power of Appium, what should I do next?

I had a look the sample Python code (https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/sample-code/examples/python/android.py), but it seems the 'ApiDemos-debug.apk' has been removed at '/sample-code/apps/ApiDemos/bin/' few days ago, does anyone have a cope of it? If I got the apk, can I run the sample code directly or should I install something first on the Android emulator/device?

And, some dummy questions regarding to the code below:

1. What should I use for the abspath in Windows?

2. What are the attributes "app-package" and "app-activity" for exactly? Where can I get the value for those attributes?

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desired_caps = {}

desired_caps['device'] = 'Android'

desired_caps['browserName'] = ''

desired_caps['version'] = '4.2'

desired_caps['app'] = os.path.abspath('../../../sample-code/apps/ApiDemos/bin/ApiDemos-debug.apk')

desired_caps['app-package'] = 'com.example.android.apis'

desired_caps['app-activity'] = 'ApiDemos'

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Sorry for a list of questions, thanks in advance for any input!

[bootstrap online]

I don't think Appium currently works on Windows.

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[Eric Z]

Thanks for the quick reply. 

Has anyone tried Appium on Windows?

[Dan Cuellar]

Writing the windows version of Appium.app is on my todo list, but I haven't tried as of yet

[Jonathan Lipps]

Most of the setup (including getting the ApiDemos app installed in the right location) takes place in reset.sh, which obviously won't work on windows. However, if you can read a bit of bash, have a look there to see what's going on. Some of the setup is iOS-specific, and some of it is Android-specific. Basically, you'll need to clone the ApiDemos submodule and set it up for building/deploying (maybe "ant" still works on your box?)

In which case the abspath line might still work (or maybe you need to change to backward slashes), and the package and activity name can stay the same (they're ways of telling Android which app and activity you want to launch with Appium).

Let us know if you get anything working on Windows! I think it'd be the first.

I'm doubtful it will work, however, as we make liberal use of calling out to unixy binaries from within Appium. Getting it running on Windows will be a good but I'm guessing non-trivial project..

Jonathan

[bootstrap online]

The Android code expects /tmp to exist and I don't think that works on Windows.

[aarons...@gmail.com]

Is this still the case appium will not work with Windows 7?

[Dan Cuellar]

Appium works on Win7. Download it here.

AppiumForWindows-0.8.1.zip

[aarons...@gmail.com]

Thanks Dan,

 

I had it installed and was wondering why people were saying it did not work? That being said I have been having problems running scripts on this. I would like to see an example that might help. I am using Python with an android emulator from eclipse. Do I run scripts using the python shell like I would Selenium Webdriver? Is there a small example script with a small example apk.

 

Aaron Portier

[Dan Cuellar]

There are examples here:

https://github.com/appium/appium/tree/master/sample-code/examples