


These can be found currently at the Android section of the aforementioned doc.įor web tests, to automate Chrome instead of your own application, leave the app capability empty and instead set the browserName capability to Chrome.
APPIUM TUTORIAL FOR ANDROID DRIVER
The UiAutomator2 driver supports a number of standard Appium capabilities, but has an additional set of capabilities that modulate the behavior of the driver. Otherwise, Appium will try to determine these automatically from your app manifest. It is highly recommended to also set the appPackage and appActivity capabilities in order to let Appium know exactly which package and activity should be launched for your application. Of course, you must also include appropriate platformName (=Android), platformVersion, deviceName, and app capabilities, at a minimum. The way to start a session using the UiAutomator2 driver is to include the automationName capability in your new session request, with the value UiAutomator2.
APPIUM TUTORIAL FOR ANDROID DRIVERS
Older Android-based drivers include: The UiAutomator Driver The Selendroid Driver Development of the UiAutomator2 driver happens at the appium-uiautomator2-driver repo. This driver leverages Google’s UiAutomator2 technology to facilitate automation on a device or emulator. Appium’s flagship support for automating Android apps is via the UiAutomator2 driver.
