Installation and configuration of Appium server

We can download the corresponding Appium version of the operating system on the Appium official website.

https://bitbucket.org/appium/appium.app/downloads/

Currently the latest version is Appiumforwindows_1_4_16_1.zip , note that this is a Windows version and if your PC is for Mac please download appium-1.5.3.dmg . Although you have seen these downloads, I do not guarantee that you can download them down.

So, to provide a link to download the Baidu network disk: Https://pan.baidu.com/s/1pKMwdfX

Let's take Windows as an example, unzip the downloaded appiumforwindows.zip and click appium-installer.exe to install it.

According to the prompt, step by step installation, here no longer verbose. Eventually generate the appium icon on the desktop, double-click Start, the Appium server interface is as follows.

The Appium-server is ready to open. As for the use of appium we put it in the later chapters to introduce.

Finally, open the Windows command prompt, enter the "appium-doctor" command, and if you get the following prompt, the environment you appium is ready to complete.

Note: If you are prompted:"Appium-doctor" is not an internal or external command , locate the Appium installation directory, for example:

C:\Program Files\appium\node_modules\.bin

Add to the environment variable path below (refer to the settings for the Java environment).

Installation and configuration of Appium server