This command installs Appium globally on your system so that you can access it from the command line simply by running the appium command. Go ahead and run it now:

This launches the Appium server process, which loads all the installed Appium drivers, and begins waiting for new session requests from client connections (such as test automation scripts).

Before installing, make sure to check the System Requirements. You can install Appium globally using npm:

In this quickstart we have used the Extension CLI to install the UiAutomator2 driver, but if you are incorporating Appium into a Node.js project, you might prefer to use NPM to manage Appium …

If you're new to Appium, it's recommended that you start off with the Introduction, then move on to the Quickstart. And you can always find Appium's code on GitHub at appium/appium.

You can't use Appium without at least one driver! Click on the link for each driver to see the specific installation instructions and documentation for that driver.

Appium is an open-source project and ecosystem of related software, designed to facilitate UI automation of many app platforms, including mobile (iOS, Android, Tizen), browser (Chrome, …

When you write an Appium test, you want to use a programming language you're familiar with. Luckily, there exist a set of Appium client libraries 1 that take care of the responsibility of …

When you install Appium globally via npm, an executable shell script named appium is placed in your global Node bin folder, often also symlinked to places like /usr/local/bin.

You need a client to write and run Appium scripts. You'll want to become very familiar with your client documentation (as well as the documentation of any Selenium client that the Appium …