Deep Hacking Appium for Fun and Profit

Based on over a year of research, Daniel Puterman -- Applitools R&D Director -- and his team submitted a major pull request to Appium, adding capabilities for both iOS and Android (which is available in Appium version 1.8, released recently).

During the past year, Daniel and his team learned a lot about Appium's structure, drivers, architecture, and the integration with the underlying automation environments.
In this talk, he deep-dives into the Appium code -- specifically the BaseDriver and its derivatives, ios-driver and android-uiautomator2-driver -- and demonstrates how to add new, multi-platform capabilities.

Daniel starts off with an overview of Appium's structure, and continues with a deep inspection of the various plugin points which allow adding features to the different platforms.