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Mobile Test Automation with Appium
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Mobile Test Automation with Appium

by Nishant Verma
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
5h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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Installing the new Appium app

Appium has recently released a new open source GUI app for Mac/Windows/Ubuntu users. It's an app with a new UI and doesn't require node or NPM to be installed. It's built using electron (for more information visit: https://electron.atom.io/) and comes bundled with node runtime. It can be downloaded and installed from the specified location (for more information visit: https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/releases/tag/v1.0.0). Based on your machine OS, you can choose to download the respective installer file and install the Appium app. The latest released version is 1.6.4.

Here's how the new Appium app looks when you launch it after install:

At the first glance, it allows you to do the following:

  • Start a ...
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