Installing Appium in Windows

In this post we will discuss about installing Appium in Windows Environment.

Appium Installation Prerequisite

Before installing Appium, we need to have following pre-requisite software’s to be installed.

• Java
• Android SDK
• Eclipse (to write client code in Java)
• Visual Studio Community edition (to write client code in C#)

Appium Installation

Appium installation is pretty straight forward, since the EXE will does all the magics for you like

• Installing node.js
• Installing Appium Server etc

Appium client required jars (JAVA)

As we will be writing client code in java for Appium in eclipse, we need following JARs to be downloaded as well

1. Selenium Server and Client API from (http://seleniumhq.org)
2. Appium Java Client
3. Gson (Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It can also be used to convert a JSON string to an equivalent Java object)

Appium client required DLL (C#)

In Visual Studio, Appium reference for client is very simple, since Appium in Nuget will do all the dependency required installation for you as shown in the screenshot

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