From the course: Mobile Testing with Appium

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Installing Appium

Installing Appium

- [Male Speaker] There are several different ways to install and run Appium. The method we'll use in this course is to download something called Appium Desktop, which is a desktop app that makes local Appium test development easy, both because of the extra features it includes, as well as the fact that it comes with all Appium's dependencies built-in. If you're ever in a position of needing to run Appium tests in the context of a continuous integration server, it would be best to simply pull Appium from NPM, the note package manager, but we'll use Appium Desktop. To download Appium Desktop, we can simply navigate to its Github page and download the latest release. So, I've navigated to github.com/appium/appium-desktop. Here's the Appium Desktop homepage, which has lots of useful information you can check out later. For now, let's go to the releases section. Once we're here, we can simply download the appropriate installer for our platform. In this case, for Mac. You can see that I am…

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