Appium download and configuration

What is Appium Inspector?

Appium Inspector is a GUI assistant tool for Appium, providing visual inspection of the application under test. It can show the application page screenshot along with its page source, and includes various features for interacting with the app.

Getting started with Appium Inspector

Before starting with the setup, it is essential to install and set up other prerequisite tools, as Appium Inspector is not a standalone testing tool.

To begin with, do the following:

• Install Java and set up the environment variables

• Install Android Studio and set up Android environment variables

• Install Appium Inspector from this link

Downloading Appium Inspector

Here is how you can download the Appium Inspector:

Step 1: As mentioned earlier, visit Appium Inspector's GitHub page by clicking on this link.

Step 2: This page has all the versions of Appium Inspector. You can download the latest version, which is usually mentioned at the top of the page.

Step 3: Under the ‘Downloads’ section of the latest release, you can find various Appium Inspector packages for Windows, Mac, Linux etc. Select the Windows version, download and save it on your PC.

With this step, the downloading process for Appium Inspector is completed.

Here is how you can install it:

Step 1: Open the folder location where the Appium Inspector is downloaded. Double-click on the exe to start installing

Step 2: You will be provided with Installation Options. Choose accordingly and then simply, click on the Install button

Step 3: Appium Setup window will displayed , when the installation process starts

Step 4: Once the process is complete, you will see the below Appium Setup window

Step 5: Now, select the Run Appium Server GUI checkbox and click ‘Finish’. Appium Start screen will be displayed.

Step 6: To check if the installation process has been successful, click startServer button. The Appium server will then start and ‘The server is running’ message will be displayed in Appium window.

This means the Appium Inspector has been successfully installed.

Step 7: Now, click Stop Server button to stop the Appium server

Once the Appium Server stops, you can close the Appium Inspector window. With this we complete the download and installation process.

Inspecting UI Elements using Appium Inspector

After completing the setup steps up to Step 6, testers can initiate an Inspector session by clicking the Search icon located on the Appium logs screen. This will launch the session and allow you to inspect the mobile application’s UI elements.

Click on Select Cloud Providers > BrowserStack > Provide Your credentials

Then by entering the Desired Capabilities details provided by BrowserStack App Automate, begin with the inspection of elements for the desired app and record the session on the cloud, as the connection with the device is established.

Recording Scripts in Appium Inspector

1. Start a session in Appium Inspector with the above Desired Capabilities.

2. Use the Inspector’s Record feature to interact with your app on the mirrored device.

1. Save or copy the generated script why selecting the webdriver.io for future use.