Appium Desktop is a new graphical interface for starting an Appium server and inspecting your app's structure via Appium. It's recently been developed by the Appium contributors at Sauce Labs and is currently in open beta. In this webinar we will take you on a tour of Appium Desktop and show how it can be used with the goal of making it easier to write tests for your apps.

1. Introducing Appium Desktop
Jonathan Lipps • Director of Open Source • Sauce Labs
@AppiumDevs • @jlipps • @saucelabs
Sauce Labs Webinar
March 29, 2017

2. Jonathan Lipps • Director of Open Source • Sauce Labs
@AppiumDevs • @jlipps • @saucelabs
Director of Open Source
Project Lead & Architect

3. appium is the cross-platform
solution for native, web, and hybrid
mobile automation

5. appium desktop is a point-and-click
interface for using appium and
inspecting your app’s structure

7. Appium CLI Appium Desktop
Install via NPM
Install by download & DMG (mac) / EXE
(win)
Launch from terminal Launch by clicking
Set parameters as command-line flags Set parameters via GUI options
Build desired capabilities and start
sessions from code only
Build desired capabilities and start
sessions from code or GUI
No visual app inspector Built-in visual app inspector
Runs on Mac, Windows, Linux Runs on Mac, Windows, Linux

8. appium community poll

9. Requirements
All of Appium’s requirements
- Xcode, Carthage, libimobiledevice, etc…, for iOS
- Java, Android SDK, etc…, for Android
That’s it!

10. Download & Install
https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/releases
Find your platform-specific installer and run it!

11. appium demo time

12. Troubleshooting Tips
- Is the problem with Appium or Appium Desktop?
- https://github.com/appium/appium/issues
- https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/issues
- Don’t run the app from the mac DMG!
- It’s just a web app; right-click + Inspect, to see
console logs

13. Roadmap
- Smarter locator suggestions (better XPath)
- Appium for Mac support
- Better WinAppDriver support
- More element actions and context handling
- Action recorder and code generator

14. Thanks!
http://appium.io
https://github.com/appium/appium
@AppiumDevs • @jlipps • @saucelabs

15. Questions?
http://appium.io
https://github.com/appium/appium
@AppiumDevs • @jlipps • @saucelabs