appium jest starter

thanks @rightsaidjames for trying these steps and the valuable feedback

with the end in mind

after going through these steps, you should have the following:

a running appium server with UiAutomator2 driver https://appium.github.io/appium/docs/en/2.0/quickstart/
an Android SDK in the ./sdk folder
a node based framework with jest and webdriverio
that runs all tests with npm test and produces a junit.xmlresults file
running against an emulator (you have started with the Android SDK Tools) with the example app is installed ./apk/lambdatest_proverbial_android.apk

run it

with

Linux or Mac
Node
Java

with Linux:

get this repository

git clone git@github.com:globalworming/appium-jest-starter.git
cd appium-jest-starter

install the dependencies

npm install

install this driver for appium

npm run env -- appium driver install uiautomator2

get the android sdk tools

wget https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools_r34.0.0-linux.zip -O /tmp/android_sdk.zip
unzip /tmp/android_sdk.zip -d sdk
rm /tmp/android_sdk.zip

wget https://dl.google.com/android/repository/commandlinetools-linux-9477386_latest.zip -O /tmp/commandlinetools.zip
unzip /tmp/commandlinetools.zip -d .
mkdir -p sdk/cmdline-tools
mv cmdline-tools sdk/cmdline-tools/tools
rm /tmp/commandlinetools.zip
mkdir sdk/platforms

accept licenses, install dependencies, a system image, and create a virtual device

# you might need a different image based on your systems architecture 
# use `sdk/cmdline-tools/tools/bin/sdkmanager --list` to see all
image="system-images;android-33;google_apis;x86_64"
yes | sdk/cmdline-tools/tools/bin/sdkmanager --licenses --sdk_root=sdk
sdk/cmdline-tools/tools/bin/sdkmanager --install "build-tools;33.0.2"  --sdk_root=sdk
echo Y | sdk/cmdline-tools/tools/bin/sdkmanager --install $image  --sdk_root=sdk
sdk/cmdline-tools/tools/bin/sdkmanager --list_installed --sdk_root=sdk
sdk/cmdline-tools/tools/bin/avdmanager --verbose create avd --force --name "car" --package $image --device "automotive_1024p_landscape"

start the emulator

ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=./sdk/ sdk/emulator/emulator -avd car

install the app to use it in your emulator

sdk/platform-tools/adb install apk/lambdatest_proverbial_android.apk

start the appium server

npm run appium

npm run test

please let me know when you run into issues

with Mac: