irfanahmadin / appium-grid-for-android

Setup For Appium grid to run tests on multiple android devices.

Appium-Grid-For-Android

Allows you to run automation test on multiple android devices (Real/Emulator) simultaneously. Just plug your android devices to machine and run tests.

Requirements:

• Java
• Nodejs (v0.10.33)
• Android SDK

Setup

• Install java and set java path in system variable.
• Set ADT bundle path in system variable.
• Install Nodejs and set path in system variable.

Setting Appium server

• Open command propmt/Terminal.
• Hit command npm install -g appium (It will take 10-15 minutes to complete)
• Verify appium server by command appium
• If you got output as following then appium server started correctly
• info: Welcome to Appium v1.3.5 (REV a124a15677e26b33db16e81c4b3b34d9c6b8cac9)
• info: Appium REST http interface listener started on 0.0.0.0:4723
• info: Console LogLevel: debug
• For Mac download Mac-Command-Setup.zip unzip it, open terminal go to download location and run command sh Mac-Command-Setup.sh this will set adb and appium execuatbles into /usr/bin.

Try example

To run web

• Download the gmail_example.jar
• Connect one or more android devices.
• Run jar java -jar gmail_example.jar

To run app

• Download the calc_example.jar
• Download the AndroidCalculator.apk
• Connect one or more android devices.
• Run jar java -jar calc_example.jar path/to/AndroidCalculator.apk