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1. How to install Appium?

Appium can be installed in one of two ways: via NPM or by downloading Appium Desktop.

a. Installation via NPM

If you want to run Appium via an npm install, hack with Appium, or contribute to Appium, you will need Node.js and NPM (use nvm, n, or brew install node to install Node.js. Make sure you have not installed Node or Appium with sudo, otherwise you'll run into problems).

npm install -g appium

b. Installation via Desktop App Download

Simply download the latest version of Appium Desktop from the releases page.

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2. How we can verify the Appium installation, what is Appium doctor?

Ans: To verify that all of Appium's dependencies are met we can use appium-doctor.
Install it with commandnpm install -g appium-doctor, then run the appium-doctor command, supplying the --ios or --android flags to verify that all of the dependencies are set up correctly.

3. What is the default port for Appium?

Ans: 4723

This port information is important since we will have to direct your test client to make sure to connect to Appium on this port. If we want to change, the port, we can do so by using the -p flag when starting Appium.

4. What are the important Appium Desired Capabilities?

Ans:

{

"platformName": "iOS", "platformVersion": "11.0", "deviceName": "iPhone 11", "automationName": "XCUITest", "app": "/path to app" }

5. Mention the Automation engine for android and IOS?

Ans:
Android: UiAutomator2

IOS : XCUITest

6. What are the locators for Appium which supports the Mobile JSON Wire Protocol locator strategies?

Ans:

-ios predicate string : a string corresponding to a recursive element search using the iOS Predicate (iOS 10.0 and above)
- -ios uiautomation for iOS 9.3 and below
-android uiautomator: a string corresponding to a recursive element search using the UiAutomator Api (Android-only)
-android datamatcher: a string corresponding to an Espresso DataMatcher json (Android-only)
accessibility id: a string corresponding to a recursive element search using the Id/Name that the native Accessibility options utilize.

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Qus Set - 21 to 30

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7. What is the use of Touch Action?

Ans: TouchAction objects contain a chain of events.

In all the appium client libraries, touch objects are created and are given a chain of events.

8. What are the available events from the Touch Action spec?

Ans:
* press

* release

* moveTo

* tap

* wait

* longPress

* cancel

* perform

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Check Selenium-SDET-UIAutomation Questions set 31 to 40:

Question Set 31-40

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9. What are the Locators used for Mobile Automation?

Ans: Click Here For The List Of Locators

10. How to use Find Element to identify Mobile elements?

Ans:
MobileElement elementOne = (MobileElement) driver.findElementByAccessibilityId("SomeAccessibilityID");

MobileElement elementTwo = (MobileElement) driver.findElementByClassName("SomeClassName");

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