[SOLVED] Running appium programatically in mac terminal using Java

Running appium programatically in mac terminal using Java

I want to start appium server programatically in mac using Java.

Can any one help me how to write the code to start appium.

Thanks..

Solution

You can launch appium server programmatically with below piece of code.

appium = AppiumDriverLocalService.buildService(new AppiumServiceBuilder()
            .withAppiumJS(new File("/usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/build/lib/main.js"))
            .usingPort(4723).withIPAddress("127.0.0.1"));
appium.start();

If you want to launch from terminal you can run below command

/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/bin/appium.js

If you want to specify the simulator and app details etc you can run below command.

node /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/bin/appium.js --address 127.0.0.1 --port 4723 --full-reset 
--device-name "iPhone 6" 
--platform-name iOS 
--platform-version "8.3" 
--app "/My.app"
--browser-name iOS

For this the node executable should be added to the path.

For starting appium 1.5.3 go through below link.

starting appium 1.5.3 programmatically