I tried to get information online but could not get a proper answer to my question. I want to be able to automate Native app installed on a Emulator on GenyMotion Cloud using Appium? If yes how can this be done. I want to be able to run the scripts on my local by accessing the Emulator on the cloud.
I have seen articles about Appium + GenyMotion Desktop version only so far.
Genymotion devices behave like standard Android devices so you can connect to them through ADB and run your tests with Appium.
You can automate the creation and the start of devices using Genymotion's command line tool, GMTool.
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I m working on appium scripting for mobile application automation testing.
I m able to simulate android device using the emulator and run the script in the emulator.
Now my next task is to run in ios. Please let me know it is possible to do it in ios emulator in Windows machine. If so some headsup on it.
You can not. There are platforms like React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, etc which enables you develop iOS applications; but when it comes to debugging and deployment, you have to have a macOS, which in turn requires a Macintosh machine.
Yess you can use Remote simulator to windows by enabling it under
Tools >> Option >> Xamarin >> IOS setting >> Remote simulator to windows.
But you still need active mac agent connection to build your app
You can use Appium studio free community edition for testing iOS physical device from windows machine.
note:- I have tested appium studio personally and think it will be useful for others.
I've recently started working with Appium. Have automated a flow on Android device and successfully run on the device. Have tried the same with iOS where the tests were invoked from Mac. The document on appium states as following
"Appium on OS X supports iOS and Android testing but from Windows we
can only test Android."
My question is, has anyone tried invoking the tests on iOS platform from OS other than Mac OS X like Windows or Linux?.
For example, using a Remote Server from Windows OS to connect to an Appium server running on Mac.
Or as usual do iPhones remain incompatible with anyone other than Mac.
Yes you can automate iOS devices using appium from windows platform
all you have to do is run your appium server in MAC with your ipv4 address..
then execute your automation script from windows to that ip address..
make sure that ip address is pingable from windows platform...
In this way you can actually use c# for automation script to automate iOS platform
I'm trying to run automated testing on iOS devices without installing Xcode, but seem like it doesn't work.
So I just want to know that Does Appium really need Xcode for run automated testing on iOS device? and why?
Xcode needs to be present for Appium to work.
Appium's command life-cycle, works as :
Selenium webdriver picks a command form the code like (Element.click) and sends it in form of JSON via http request to the Appium server. Appium server knows the automation context like the iOS and Android and sends this command to the Instruments command server which will wait for the Instruments command client (written in node.js) to pick it up and execute it in bootstrap.js with in the iOS instruments environment. Once the command is executed the command client sends back the message to the Appium server which logs everything related to the command in its console. This cycle keeps going till the time all the commands gets executed.
Apple’s instruments binary, which Appium uses to launch the iOS simulator, by default uses the currently-selected Xcode, and the highest iOS SDK installed with that version of Xcode.
Appium uses the appium-xcuitest-driver to test iOS devices using the Xcode UI Testing protocol. Under the hood, it will launch the WebDriverAgent on the iOS device, which does the heavy lifting.
There is 3rd party, commercial software which allow you to launch Appium tests on iOS devices without having to use Xcode. Such examples are Mobile Center from MicroFocus, Appium Studio from Experitest, or the quamotion/appion-docker-ios docker image.
Yes you need xcode to run you test on ios. And yes it supports native, hybrid as well as browsers.
I know that it's impossible to code the test on ubuntu since I need apple's xCode, but I would like to know if, once coded, it is possible to run the automated tests on Ubuntu.
Thanks.
No, appium needs xCode to use UiAutomation and instruments to perform testing on iOS unfortunately.
I did follow with success the following tutorial: Appium on Raspberry-Pi
My current setup is as follows:
iOS devices connected to Raspberry-Pi 4 (Ubuntu)
Appium server on RPi + Quamotion tools
Inspect/Run automation scripts from remote computer.
I tried this on RPi but I guess this works on any Ubuntu computer/server.
Can we build(Compile+Link+Build) an iOS project from a windows PC?. I want to remotely compile and build an iOS application from a windows PC through command. Is that possible ?
I know that it is possible to build an iOS application via commandline in ios using xCodeBuild. Can we do that remotely from a windows PC ?
Just use SSH to log into the Mac machine and run xcodebuild? That’s the essential core trick, and depending on your needs you can add more bells and whistles. For example the Jenkins continuous integration server can manage a “slave” Mac machine to build and test code, showing you the results.