I have been exploring the android automation testing tools to automate black box testing where I would only have an apk without source code access. After spending some time with Robotium, I understood that it requires the user to re-sign an apk in order to automate. Hence I have decided to look into appium and still not very clear about how does it work? Is it possible to use appium to automate the tests where we only have the target apk file without source code and if it is possible, is it required to resign it like Robotium.
Thanks in advance!
You can automate Android apk files using appium, as long as you have the apk binary.
iOS requires a signed developer build.