Appium is an open-source project and ecosystem of related software, designed to facilitate UI automation of many app platforms, including mobile (iOS, Android, Tizen), browser (Chrome, Firefox, …

There are very few limitations on what you can do with plugins, so you might also be interested in learning how to Build Plugins in Node.js that can be used with Appium. So that's Appium: an …

There are very few limitations on what you can do with plugins, so you might also be interested in learning how to Build Plugins in Node.js that can be used with Appium. So that's Appium: an …

This command installs Appium globally on your system so that you can access it from the command line simply by running the appium command. Go ahead and run it now:

As mentioned on the main page, Appium aims to support UI automation of many different platforms (mobile, web, desktop, etc.). Not only that, but it also aims to support automation code written in …

Appium's vendor prefix is appium:, and so any Appium-specific capabilities must include this prefix. Depending on which client you are using, the prefix may be added automatically or in conjunction …

Intro to Appium Clients For all the reasons discussed in the main intro, Appium is based on the W3C WebDriver specification. This means that Appium implements a client-server architecture.

Instead, Appium 2.0 reenvisions Appium as a platform where "drivers" (code projects that introduce support for automation of a given platform) and "plugins" (code projects that allow for overriding, …

The Appium Python Client is an official Appium client in Python, which is available via pypi under the Appium-Python-Client package name. It inherits from the Selenium Python Binding, so installing the …

As the main Overview makes clear, "drivers" are basically Appium's answer to the question, "how do we support automation of multiple, unrelated platforms?" In this doc we'll get into a little more detail …