## Introducing Appium Desktop

**Sauce Labs Webinar** March 29, 2017

Jonathan Lipps • Director of Open Source • Sauce Labs @AppiumDevs • @jlipps • @saucelabs

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# Appium is the cross-platform solution for native, web, and hybrid mobile automation

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# Appium Desktop is a point-and-click interface for using Appium and inspecting your app’s structure

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| 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 |

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# Appium Community Poll

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# Requirements

All of Appium’s requirements

- Xcode, Carthage, libimobiledevice, etc., for iOS
- Java, Android SDK, etc., for Android  
  That’s it!

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# Download & Install

[https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/releases](https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/releases)  
Find your platform-specific installer and run it!

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# Appium Demo Time

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# Troubleshooting Tips

- Is the problem with Appium or Appium Desktop?
- [https://github.com/appium/appium/issues](https://github.com/appium/appium/issues)
- [https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/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

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# Roadmap

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

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# Thanks!

[http://appium.io](http://appium.io/) [https://github.com/appium/appium](https://github.com/appium/appium) @AppiumDevs • @jlipps • @saucelabs

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# Questions?

[http://appium.io](http://appium.io/) [https://github.com/appium/appium](https://github.com/appium/appium) @AppiumDevs • @jlipps • @saucelabs