Appium inspector

We read about Appium inspector briefly in Chapter 3, Writing Your First Appium Test, to find out the element we want to click on. It's a handy tool for element discovery and understating the hierarchy. Let's take a thorough look at Appium inspector and the possibilities it opens for us. Let's launch the Appium inspector by following these steps:

  1. Launch the emulator.
  2. Ensure that the Quikr app is installed on the emulator.

 

  1. Click on the Android Settings icon in the Appium app, select the Package as com.quikr, and select the Launch Activity as com.quikr.old.SplashActivity. (Refer Appendix to learn to find out Package Name and Launch Activity)
  2. Select the Platform Name as Android, Automation Name as Appium, and the Platform ...

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