Set Up Appium on MacOS for Testing Android Devices

1. Install Homebrew (it’s a package management system that makes it easier to install software on Mac OS machines).

   Please find Homebrew and follow the instructions on this website:

   https://brew.sh/

2. Install Carthage (a dependency manager). To do this, open the Terminal window and run the following command:

   brew install carthage

3. Install Node.js and NPM. To do this, run this command:

   brew install node

1. Download the JDK from this website:

   https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-downloads.html

   Run the dowloaded installer and follow the instructions you will see on screen.

2. Run the following command in the Terminal:

   /usr/libexec/java_home --v

   This will output a string like /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_171.jdk/Contents/Home. This is the location of the JDK on your computer. Copy this value.

3. Open your .bash_profile file in an editor and add the following two lines to it:

   export JAVA_HOME="copied-path-to-JDK-directory"
   export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

   Save the changes.

   Restart the Terminal to grab the new .bash_profile settings.

1. Start AndroidStudio.

2. In the Welcome dialog box, select Configure > SDK Manager. This will open the SDK Manager dialog box:

   • On the SDK Platforms tab, select the SDKs that you will need for testing.

     Select at least one SDK.

   • Switch to the SDK Tools tab and make sure the following tools are selected there:

     • Android SDK Build-tools

       Note:

       Select the latest available version.

     • Android SDK Platform-Tools
     • Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator (HAXM installer)

   • Copy the value of the Android SDK Location box at the top of the SDK Manager dialog. We will need this value later:

     

3. Now you need to specify the path to Android SDKs in the ANDROID_HOME environment variable. To do this, open the bash_profile in an editor and add the following lines to it:

   export ANDROID_HOME="copied-Android-SDK-location"
   export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

4. Restart the Terminal to get changes made to your .bash_profile. Run the following command to ensure it does not cause an error:

   adb

   (Optional) You can also run Appium Doctor to see if anything else requires configuring before you start testing:

   appium-doctor

Run the following command in the Terminal:

After the installation is over, check the gradle version by running this command:

1. Run the following command in the Terminal:

   brew install maven

   Check the maven version by running this command:

   mvn -version

2. Open your .bash_profile file in an editor and add the following line to it:

   export PATH="/usr/local/Cellar/maven/version-number/bin:$PATH"

   To get the version-number, go to /usr/local/Cellar/maven/. Look at the names of subdirectories there. These are available versions. Select the version you need.