Appium has recently released a new open source GUI app for Mac/Windows/Ubuntu users. It's an app with a new UI and doesn't require node or NPM to be installed. It's built using electron (for more information visit: https://electron.atom.io/) and comes bundled with node runtime. It can be downloaded and installed from the specified location (for more information visit: https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/releases/tag/v1.0.0). Based on your machine OS, you can choose to download the respective installer file and install the Appium app. The latest released version is 1.6.4
.
Here's how the new Appium app looks when you launch it after install:
At the first glance, it allows you to do the following:
- Start a simple server (version 1.6.4) with the default configuration
- Explore some additional settings under the
Advanced
tab, and then start the server or save it as presets
Let's take a detailed look at starting a simple server.