It is assumed that you have completed the Android System setup section mentioned at the beginning of this book (basically android sdk should be available in PATH including android tools).By default Appium server listens on port :4723 on all network interfaces (0.0.0.0).The appium server is started in Android mode (radio button for Android icon checked).Navigate to Xcode -> Preferences OR if you prefer to check from command line. At the time of writing this book, we used OSX 10.10.5 Yosemite, Xcode 7.1.1 and the SDKs as shown below.The appium server version as you can see is 1.4.13.It is assumed that you have installed Xcode and compatible command line tools aligned with your mac os.By default Appium server listens on port :4723 on all netework interfaces (0.0.0.0).The Appium server in the above picture has started in iOS mode (radio button for Apple icon checked).The server looks as below after you download and install it (Ignore the verbose statements).Click the 'Launch' button GUI Start iOS Mode Eventually with CI alignment, you would want to go with nodejs server though). dmg file and double click to install and start. Download and install Appium Serverįollow the instructions on appium home page - (You can see that it is a nodejs server, and hence you can start the server from command line, however to keep it simple initially, I just download the.

In general, most forums, help topics and troubleshoot posts on internet will be aligned with mac environment. Sure android can work on windows, but if we have to make a choice, we would choose mac over windows. This post will focus more on mac - The only reason being that the whole mobile app environment with emulators/simulators, correct drivers for real devices (for debugging from IDE) etc.

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