What are Some Appium Inspector Capabilities for Android?
Let’s first understand what our capabilities in the Appium inspector these capabilities are a set of options known as configuration options which we can use in order to customize, how this inspector interacts with various apps during the phase of automation as well as the testing process and these capabilities can help us to specify settings as well as device or app for the inspection.
Let’s look at some of the common Appium Inspector typically which are available in the Android:
- noReset: This capability helps us to prevent the app from getting resetted on the device.
- udid: This capability has a unique device identifier of any physical android device, which helps us whenever multiple devices are connected.
- app: This contains the URL or the path to any APK that we want to inspect.
- deviceName: This function or capability is used to specify the name of a device, that you want to inspect.
- platformVersion: It is used to specify the operating system version of the Android while running it on the emulator as well as device.
- platformName: This inspector capability is used in order to specify the platform that is being used.
- fullReset: As the name suggests, this functionality completely resets the app beforehand when the session has not even started.
- appPackage: It contains the packaging name of any app that we want to inspect.
What is APPIUM Inspector?
The Appium Inspector is a GUI-based inspector that provides us with a unified interface for the inspection and interaction with various elements on different mobile platforms like Android and iOS etc. The main reason for using the Appium Inspector is that it provides us the capability to do cross-platform testing, which then simplifies the various testing processes for an app that runs on multiple platforms.
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