Download Appium Inspector Ubuntu
Shanae Maerz
does appium have inspector for android that runs on ubuntu? If so, how to install it.I have did enough searching. I'm pointed to MAC version of appium inspector, but not able to find if for Ubuntu. Any help much appreciated.
appium-desktop is available as an AppImage which means "one app = one file", which you can download and run on your Linux system while you don't need a package manager and nothing gets changed in your system. Awesome!
If you would like to have the executable bit set automatically, and would like to see appium-desktop and other AppImages integrated into the system (menus, icons, file type associations, etc.), then you may want to check the optional appimaged daemon.
Please consider to add update information to the appium-desktop AppImage and ship a .zsync file so that it can be updated using AppImageUpdate. Tools like appimagetool and linuxdeployqt can do this for you easily.
Appium supports app automation across a variety of platforms, like iOS,Android, and Windows. Each platform is supported by one or more "drivers",which know how to automate that particular platform. Since version 2.0all drivers have been isolated from the Appium server app and canbe managed independently using the appium driver command line interface.
The Appium developer community has created a new driver, appium_flutter_driver.This has enabled test automation engineers to automate flutter-based apps just like how they would automate android and iOS mobile apps.
Appium inspector is a combination of the Appium server itself and the inspector, which is designed to help you discover all the visible elements of your app while developing your test scripts. The fellows at Appium have mentioned that while the inspector works well for iOS, there are some problem areas with it in Android on Appium at the moment. To that end, the Appium team encourages the use of uiautomatorviewer (which is an inspector tool provided by Google that provides similar functionality to the Appium inspector tool).
XCTest Framework or Appium XCUITest Driver provides a way to interact with the app element programmatically, but we still need to identify the element selectors manually and provide the selectors to our automated UI tests to interact with the elements. However, since we have to use an iOS simulator or a real iOS device to open the app, there is no built-in inspector on the device to give us those information, like it usually does with Developer Tools in various browsers. There are 3 approaches I use frequently to inspect a native iOS app content and determine the selector to locate an element.
(2) the page where we can attach an inspector to the running appium session. by clicking on the highlighted part as shown in the first image. Inspector is used to find the locators of an element on an android or ios app.
I am facing a problem wherein I am not able to find the elements that are within a FrameLayout, so while I run the appium script using the resource id, I get No such element found exception. Can you please tell me how to address this issue, as I am stuck with this case since past 2 months.
I am using appium 1.8.1 desktop
Also tried using automation name as UiAutomator2 but still of no help.
I am super happy to hear that! In appium automation, the first installations, versions compatibility, etc. are so crucial and I am so happy that this article helped you to have a stable and running appium automation environment. :)
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