Complete Appium Tutorials | Appium Introduction

Complete Appium Tutorials | Appium Introduction.

What is and Appium?
Appium is an open source free Automation Mobile App Tool.
Automate Native apps, Hybrid apps and Mobile Web browser Automation.
Drives Android , IOS and Windows based Apps.
With the help of WebDriver Protocol.
Appium is a Cross Platform ,you can write the test scripts against Multiple Platforms with the same API.
IOS + ANDROID + WINDOWS

Native Apps : Developed using IOS , Android & Windows SDK Platforms.
Examples : Facebook , What’s Up , Times of India etc.
Hybrid Apps : Hybrid apps are part of Native Apps and Web Apps , it is a wrapper of web View .
Hybrid apps build wrapper for already developed Web Sites.
Example : Blogger
Web Apps : Works in Web Browsers and implemented by HTML 5 .

Supported Frameworks
iOS Platform : Apple’s UIAutomation
Android 4.2+ Platform : Google’s UiAutomator
Android 2.3+ Platform : Google’s Instrumentation - Selendroid
Windows: Microsoft’s WinAppDriver

JDK should be installed
Set JAVA_HOME
Install Android SDK
Node JS
PDA .net for phone connectivity(in phone and Computer)
Emulators

Less than Android version 17 will not work
In IOS script will execution time is more.
Limit Supports for Gestures
Not supports for Toast Messages.

Supported Languaes

Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#