Appium Setup

With WebdriverIO you can test not only web application in the browser but also other platforms such as:

• 📱 mobile applications on iOS, Android or Tizen
• 🖥️ desktop applications on macOS or Windows
• 📺 as well as TV apps for Roku, tvOS, Android TV and Samsung

We recommend to use Appium to help you facilitate these types of tests. You can get an overview on Appium on their offical documentation page.

Setting up the right environment is not straight forward. Luckily the Appium ecosystem has great tooling around this to help you. To set-up one of the above environments, just run:

$ npx appium-installer

This will initiate the appium-installer toolkit that guides you through the setup process.