Appium: Preparing for a Mac environment

• Simple way: Download dmg files directly on Appium website for installation:

http://appium.io/ Click download Download. DMG

Double-click this again. DMG files for automatic installation;

Once the installation is complete, drag it to the list of applications.

Double-click the app icon to open it and open it as shown (Mac needs to set "security options" first, allowing apps to open third-party channels)

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Check again to verify that the required tools are fully installed (if not, follow the prompts to install them):

Show running iOS all done;

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Installation is complete!

Start successfully!

• command-line mode to install Appium on Mac

1. Install Xcode on your Mac

2. Install the Toolkit brew on Mac (please ignore the installed)

Official website mode prompt installation http://brew.sh/index_zh-cn.html /bin/ruby-e "$ (Curl-fssl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ Homebrew/install/master/install) "

3. Install the note, open the console, enter

"Brew Install note"

4. Install Appium, open the console, enter

"Brew install-g appium"

5. After installing Appium, it is recommended to install a Appium GUI, enter

"NPM Install WD"

After installation, enter "Appium" on the command line to start, will prompt Appium version number and other information;

Problem Description:

1. When booting with Appium, prompt port is occupied, can kill the occupied process

First, find out which process is consuming port

"Lsof-i:8080"

After the check, "pkill process name " Kill the occupation process, and then restart the Appium;

2. Enter Appium or Appium & in the command to start the Appium, the difference is

appium : Direct start

Appium & : First show the PID of Appium, then start;

3. Accompanying Help commands

"Appium-doctor"

Appium: Preparing for a Mac environment