java appium andriod_JAVA - Create Appium and Android driver

Long time I thought to write this post, because lot of peoples are looking for a way to start appium and android driver by Java code, but actually using some command prompt script.

First you should install Appium (both on Mac or Windows) by NPM like this:

to install NPM look here

npm install -g appium

then from your JAVA code you can start Appium node by this code

import io.appium.java_client.service.local.AppiumDriverLocalService;

import io.appium.java_client.service.local.AppiumServiceBuilder;

import io.appium.java_client.service.local.flags.AndroidServerFlag;

import java.io.OutputStream;

import java.lang.reflect.Field;

import java.util.ArrayList;

AppiumDriverLocalService appiumNode = AppiumDriverLocalService.buildService(new AppiumServiceBuilder()

.withIPAddress("localhost")

.usingPort(port)

.withArgument(AndroidServerFlag.BOOTSTRAP_PORT_NUMBER, String.valueOf(bpPort))

.withLogFile(log));

// if you want to remove appium log from console use this code

Field streamsField = null;

Field streamField = null;

try {

streamField = AppiumDriverLocalService.class.getDeclaredField("stream");

streamField.setAccessible(true);

streamsField = Class.forName("io.appium.java_client.service.local.ListOutputStream").getDeclaredField("streams");

streamsField.setAccessible(true);

} catch (ClassNotFoundException | NoSuchFieldException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

try {

((ArrayList) streamsField.get(streamField.get(appiumDriver))).clear(); // remove System.out logging

} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

appiumNode.start();

Now your Appium node is up, you can check by

appiumNode.isRunning()

To start Android driver, you just need to use same port from Appium node

import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver;

import io.appium.java_client.remote.AndroidMobileCapabilityType;

import io.appium.java_client.remote.MobileCapabilityType;

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();

capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_NAME, "device_name");

capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.UDID, "device_udid");

capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.NEW_COMMAND_TIMEOUT, 60 * 30);

capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.NO_RESET, true);

capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.FULL_RESET, false);

capabilities.setCapability(AndroidMobileCapabilityType.APP_PACKAGE, currentPackageName);

capabilities.setCapability(AndroidMobileCapabilityType.APP_ACTIVITY, currentActivityName);

if (apk!= null){

capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.APP, apk.getAbsolutePath());

}

URL serverAddress = new URL("h_t_t_p://localhost:" + port + "/wd/hub");

AndroidDriver androidDriver = new AndroidDriver(serverAddress , capabilities);

And that's all !!!!

now you can use this code for each device you need, if you are running on multiple devices, you just need to create each of appium node and android driver per device, using different port.

I hope it will help you to really create by JAVA code you testing environment.