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I am new to mobile testing. I want to configure appium for testing android applicaiton on Mac machine. Can someone provide the steps to do. And I want to using with selenium webdriver using Java.

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  • Is there something missing from the documentation that you need to know? appium.io/slate/en/v1.2.0/?ruby#toc_0
    – thebeekeeper
    Jul 21, 2014 at 18:13
  • I was searching for step by step procedure to configure Appium on a Mac machine. Is there any source available?
    – STE
    Jul 23, 2014 at 11:33

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While working on several projects I've described the following procedure to install Appium:

  1. Download Android SDK
    https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

  2. Extract Android SDK to /usr/local/adt/
    unzip -qo adt-bundle-*.zip -d /usr/local/adt

  3. Set ANDROID_HOME and JAVA_HOME environment variables
    export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)
    export ANDROID_HOME=/usr/local/adt/sdk

  4. Add ANDROID_HOME and JAVA_HOME to sh profile (in order not to set them every time)
    echo "export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)" >> ~/.bash_profile
    echo "export ANDROID_HOME=/usr/local/adt/sdk" >> ~/.bash_profile

  5. Install Android build and platform tools
    $ANDROID_HOME/tools/android update sdk --no-ui --obsolete --force

  6. Goto some directory and get Appium framework
    git clone https://github.com/appium/appium.git

  7. Configure Appium for Android
    cd appium
    ./reset.sh --android --selendroid --verbose

  8. Start Appium server with
    node .

Feel free ask me if you any issues.

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  • I have configured settings until step.5. Can you guide me on how to configure the settings for android in appium. dropmocks.com/mGf82g. I want to run the test on a real device(Nexus 4). Thanks for the help.
    – STE
    Jul 24, 2014 at 16:37
  • Your Appium configuration looks fine at first sight. What problem do you face? P.S. Please remember, that Appium is just a server, you initiate test run from test code, and can change configuration/capabilities there as well.
    – Dmitry Cheremushkin
    Jul 26, 2014 at 16:01
  • So I followed the directions above and I can do stuff on a real android device, but I can't do it on emulator. I am getting this error: Unable to start Emulator: PANIC: HOME is defined but could not find .ini file in $HOME/.android/avd (Note: avd is searched in the order of $ANDROID_AVD_HOME,$ANDROID_SDK_HOME/.android/avd and $HOME/.android/avd)
    – user11575
    Apr 3, 2015 at 13:19
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I can offer a new video tutorial: Testing Android apps with Appium - from setup to first test on OS X That might be very helpful for this purpose

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  • How about writing a descriptive answer here that might help the person asking the question. You may use links to articles and videos as reference may they may change or get removed over time.
    – IAmMilinPatel
    Jul 10, 2015 at 17:04

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