We desire the last two chapters (Chapter 1, and Chapter 2) in our Tech Talk serial provided you with the right info to feel confident about conduct the next measure in your journeying to becoming that Appium Desktop ninja.

In this tertiary chapter, Wim Selles, our Elderly Solutions Architect at Sauce Labs, demonstrates how you can set up Appium Desktop by connecting it to a configured iOS simulator or an Android emulator. He will walk you through each pace of the process, starting with downloading Appium Desktop, and direct through the three different tabloid in the start window:

• ‘ Simple ’ tab, which has all the default configurations to start an Appium server

• ‘ Advanced ’ tab, which offers advanced control and options command for iOS/ Android

• ‘ Preset ’ tab, which helps you save inputs for future execution

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As we travel along this interactive live demo session, Wim will dive into how to best inspect UI elements of your apps with the ‘ Appium Desktop inspector ’ session.

In this chapter, you will also take away the key differences and specific pros and cons when run an Android emulator v/s an iOS simulator expend the Appium Desktop.

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Ready to take the next step? Here are links to the rest of the series: