Mobile Automation: How to download and install Appium

Before moving to installation part first we have to know about the appium and its advantages. 

What is appium? 

It is basically the open source tool which behave like a server to make a connection between programming editor and testing devices and is capable of doing many more things which we will cover in Advantages part. 

Advantages of Appium:

1) It allow us to use the preferred programming languages to write the test scripts. 

2) It also support the cross platform like: Android and ios. 

3) it support number of languages like: Java,  Python, ruby etc.. 

Let's come to the Installation steps:

For Window OS:

Step 1: 

Go the url: http://appium.io/

Step 2: 

Download the exe file from the download section save it on your machine which will appear as below:

Step 3:

Double click on exe file and below pop up will appear:

Step 4:

Select the option as per your need and click on install button and another pop appear which will show installation progress same as mentioned in the below screenshot:

Step 5:

After completing the installation another pop-up with finish button appear, just click on finish and you are happy to use the appium. 

Have a happy mobile testing!!!