appium(12)-The starting of an app

Steps:

you have to prepare environment for Android. Details are provided here: http://appium.io/slate/en/master/?java#setup-(android)//准备安卓环境。
you have to download the desktop app for Windows or Mac OS X or install it using npm $ npm install -g appium or $ npm install appium@required_version//安装appium server。
it needs to launch the appium server. If you use the server installed via npm then

$ node the_path_to_js_file --arg1 value1 --arg2 value2 where the_path_to_js_file is the full path to appium.js file (if the node server version version <= 1.4.16) or main.js (if the node server version version >= 1.5.0). It is not necessary to use arguments. The list of arguments: http://appium.io/slate/en/master/?java#appium-server-arguments//启动appium server。

The starting of an app

It looks like creation of a common RemoteWebDriver instance.

Common capabilities

Android-specific capabilities

Common capabilities provided by Java client

Android-specific capabilities provided by Java client

//范例一：启动一个app。

 1 import java.io.File;
 2 import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
 3 import io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver;
 4 import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver;
 5 import io.appium.java_client.MobileElement;
 6 import java.net.URL;
 7 
 8 ...
 9 File app  = new File("The absolute or relative path to an *.apk file");
10 DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
11 capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_NAME, "Android Emulator");
12 capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.APP, app.getAbsolutePath());
13 //you are free to set additional capabilities 
14 AppiumDriver<MobileElement> driver = new AndroidDriver<>(
15 new URL("http://target_ip:used_port/wd/hub"), //if it needs to use locally started server
16 //then the target_ip is 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0
17 //the default port is 4723
18 capabilities);

//范例二：启动手机浏览器。

If it needs to start browser then:

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import io.appium.java_client.remote.MobileBrowserType;
import io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver;
import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement;
import java.net.URL;


...
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_NAME, "Android Emulator");
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, MobileBrowserType.CHROME);//使用谷歌浏览器
//if it is necessary to use the default Android browser then MobileBrowserType.BROWSER//使用自带浏览器
//is your choise
...
//you are free to set additional capabilities 
AppiumDriver<MobileElement> driver = new AndroidDriver<>(
new URL("http://target_ip:used_port/wd/hub"), capabilities);

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import io.appium.java_client.remote.MobileBrowserType;
import io.appium.java_client.remote.MobilePlatform;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;
import java.net.URL;


...
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.PLATFORM_NAME, MobilePlatform.ANDROID);
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_NAME, "Android Emulator");
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, MobileBrowserType.CHROME);
//you are free to set additional capabilities 
RemoteWebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(
new URL("http://target_ip:used_port/wd/hub"), capabilities);