Setting up Appium

Running Appium on Windows

Additional Setup for Android App Testing

Download latest node and npm tools MSI (version >= 6.0). The npm and nodejs paths should be in your PATH environment variable.
Download the latest Java JDK here (accept the license agreement first). Set 'JAVA_HOME’ to be your JDK path. The bin in that directory should be added to your PATH variable.
Install the Android SDK. Set the ANDROID_HOME environment variable to be your Android SDK path and add the tools and platform-tools folders to your PATH variable.
Install Apache Ant or use the one that comes with the Android Windows SDK in the eclipse\plugins folder. Be sure to add the folder containing Ant to your PATH variable.//可省略，从源码安装appium时才需要
Install Apache Maven and set the M2HOME and M2 environment variables. Set M2_HOME to the directory maven is installed in, and set M2 to the bin in that directory. Add the path you used for M2 to your PATH.//可省略
To run tests on Windows, you will need to have the Android Emulator booted or an Android Device connected that is running an AVD with API Level 17 or greater. Then run Appium on the command line (via the appium command)
Your test script should ensure that the platformVersion capability corresponds to the emulator or device version you are testing, and that the app capability is an absolute path to the .apk file of the Android app.

Setup

You can run an Appium server using node.js or using the application, see below.

Appium on OS X supports iOS and Android testing.

System setup (iOS)

Appium requires Mac OS X 10.7 or greater. We recommend OS X 10.10.
Make sure you have Xcode and the iOS SDK(s) installed. Xcode version 7.1 is recommended as earlier versions of Xcode are limited in which versions of iOS they can test against. See the next section for more detail.
You need to authorize use of the iOS Simulator. See below.
If you’re on Xcode 7.x, Instruments Without Delay (IWD) does not work. You can enable IWD (which will significantly speed up your tests) using this method

Authorizing iOS on the computer

You need to authorize use of the iOS Simulator by running the authorize-ios binary made available through npm. Install the program by running

npm install -g authorize-ios

And the invoke the program using

sudo authorize-ios

If you are running Appium.app, you can authorize iOS through the GUI.

You need to do this every time you install a new version of Xcode.