Installation Guide for Appium 1.6.3

A.) System Requirements:-

• Require Node 4 or above
• Xcode 8 IOS 10

B.) Open terminal and type following command to install Appium 1.6.3:- npm install-g Appium

C.) External Dependencies:-

• Install "Homebrew" by following command:- ruby-e "$ (curl-fssl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/ Install/master/install) "
• After instaling Home Brew Run following commands:-
• Brew Install Ideviceinstaller
• Brew Install Carthage
• NPM install-g Ios-deploy
• NPM install-g Deviceconsole
• Gem Install Xcpretty
• Brew Install Libimobiledevice--head (for iOS10)
• Brew Install Libimobiledevice (For IOS 9)

3.) Webdriveragent Configuration:-

• go to newly installed Appium directory and navigate to "node_modules/appium-xcuitest-driver/webdrive Ragent "
• run following command:-  mkdir-p Resources/webdriveragent.bundle
• run following command:-  sh./scripts/bootstrap.sh-d
• open Xcode With webdriveragent.xcodeproj
• build webdriveragent project with provisioning profile.
• now Run following command:- 

  xcodebuild-project Webdriveragent.xcodeproj- Scheme webdriveragentrunner-destination ' Id=udid of device ' test

Details about Commands

1.)Homebrew :-Package Manager for MacOS.

2.) Ideviceinstaller:- cross-platform Library and tools for communicating with IOS devices

3.) Carthage:- A dependency manager that gets the job did without taking over the responsibility of Xcode.

4.) Ios-deploy:- debug iOS apps without using Xcode

5.) Deviceconsole:-IOS system log tailer.

6.) Xcpretty:- flexible and fast xcodebuild formatter.

7.) Libimobiledevice:- A cross-platform Software Protocol library and tools to communicate with IOS

Installation Guide for Appium 1.6.3