appium
Installation
SKILL.md
Appium
Appium is an open-source framework for automating native, mobile web, and hybrid applications on iOS, mobile Android, and Windows desktop platforms. It uses the WebDriver protocol.
When to Use
- Cross-Platform Mobile UI Automation: Automating functional end-to-end tests across native iOS, Android, and mobile web browsers.
- Real Device Cloud Grid Testing: Executing mobile regression suites across device clouds (BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, AWS Device Farm).
- Hybrid & Native App Interactions: Testing apps that transition between native UI components and embedded WebViews.
- Physical Hardware Button Testing: Automating device rotation, biometric dialogs, network toggles, and volume keys.