To list all the available drivers in appium, enter the following command: appium driver list ✔ Listing available drivers - uiautomator2 - xcuitest - youiengine - windows - mac - mac2 - espresso - tizen - flutter - safari - gecko Creating custom drivers for any new platform or special use cases are going to be easy from Appium 2.0.įor example, in the future, we might have an Appium Wear driver to automate WearOS Apps or an Appium KaiOS driver to automate smart feature apps in kaiOS.

Defaults to 600 seconds.Īppium drivers (UIAutomator2 driver, XCUITest driver, Espresso Driver, etc) are tightly coupled with Appium Server but from Appium 2.0 these drivers are separated from Appium Server and can be installed separately based on users’ needs.

-ka or –keep-alive-timeout to specify the number of seconds the Appium server should apply as both the keep-alive timeout and the connection timeout for all requests.

-ah to specify a directory to install Appium driversĪppium server -ah /path/to/install/drivers driver install uiautomator2.

In addition to the server arguments, Appium 2.0 introduces new arguments: Appium 2.0 beta versions can be installed using the below command: npm install -g server can take up several optional arguments. Installing Appium 2.0 ServerĪppium team has released 2.0.0-beta.10 recently with the official Appium image plugin and some minor bug fixes and improvements over its earlier beta versions.

Since then, Appium has rolled out a lot of new features and its automation backend architecture has evolved quite a lot.Īppium 2.0, the next major release, has been in talks for a couple of years now, as Jonathan Lipps and the team have been brainstorming and implementing new features. Īppium released its first major version almost 7 years ago. This article was written by Srinivasan Sekar and Sai Krishna.

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