Installation Guide for Appium 1.6.3 _Installation

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A.) System Requirements : -

Require node 4 or above
Xcode 8 ios 10

B.) Open terminal and type following command to install Appium 1.6.3 : - npm install -g appium
C.) External Dependencies : -

Install "Homebrew" by following command : - ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
After instaling Home brew run following commands : -
brew install ideviceinstaller
brew install carthage
npm install -g ios-deploy
npm install -g deviceconsole
gem install xcpretty
brew install libimobiledevice --HEAD (for iOS10)
brew install libimobiledevice (for iOS 9)

3.) WebDriverAgent Configuration : -

Go to newly installed Appium directory and navigate to “node_modules/appium-xcuitest-driver/WebDriverAgent”
Run following command : - mkdir -p Resources/WebDriverAgent.bundle
Run following command : - sh ./Scripts/bootstrap.sh -d
Open Xcode with WebDriverAgent.xcodeproj
Build WebDriverAgent project with provisioning profile.
Now run following command : - xcodebuild -project WebDriverAgent.xcodeproj -scheme WebDriverAgentRunner -destination ‘id=UDID of device‘ test

Details about commands1.)Homebrew : - Package manager for macOS.
2.)ideviceinstaller : - Cross-platform library and tools for communicating with iOS devices
3.) carthage : - A dependency manager that gets the job done without taking over the responsibility of Xcode.
4.)ios-deploy :- debug iOS apps without using Xcode
5.) deviceconsole : - iOS system log tailer.
6.) xcpretty : - flexible and fast xcodebuild formatter.
【Installation Guide for Appium 1.6.3】7.) libimobiledevice : - A cross-platform software protocol library and tools to communicate with iOS