How to configure Appium and Android Studio?

Question

Hi am very new in appium , I have run my first test case (Java with TestNG) using eclipse but now i want switch to Android Studio. Please provide me step by step process to add jar's and other things into Android Studio

Answer 1

I recommend you to use IntelliJ IDEA. You can create project with gradle where you can insert dependencies, but you can include easly .jars by File -> Project structure -> Libraries -> (+) -> Java and then select your .jar file.

IntelliJ IDEA got testNG already installed so you don't have to install it.

For testing all you need are gson-2.2.2, java-client-4.0.0, selenium-java-2.53.1 jars.

To connect with your device use class

public class Setup {
    private final String DEVICE_NAME = "deviceName";
    private final String PLATFORM_NAME = "platformName";
    private final String PLATFORM_VERSION = "platformVersion";
    private final String APP_PACKAGE = "appPackage";
    private final String APP_ACTIVITY = "appActivity";

    private String deviceName = "Android SDK built for x86"; //device name can be found in device settings
    private String platformName = "Android"; 
    private String platformVersion = "6.0"; //version of your android
    private String port = "4723"; //port from Appium server
    private String url; 

    private String getIp() throws UnknownHostException {
        InetAddress ip = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
        return ip.getHostAddress();
    }

    public AndroidDriver establishConnection() throws MalformedURLException {
        try {
            url = String.format("http://%s:%s/wd/hub", getIp(), port);
        } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        DesiredCapabilities capability = new DesiredCapabilities();
        capability.setCapability(DEVICE_NAME, deviceName);
        capability.setCapability(PLATFORM_NAME, platformName);
        capability.setCapability(PLATFORM_VERSION, platformVersion);

        capability.setCapability(APP_PACKAGE, "my.app.package");
        capability.setCapability(APP_ACTIVITY, "my.app.activity");

        return new AndroidDriver(new URL(url), capability);
    }
}

After this you can create new class with @BeforeClass where you can create object of Setup class, call establishConnection(); and initialize driver and test your app UI with @Test methods. Don't forget to install .apk first on your device :)