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Setting up Android and iOS on a local machine

Android

To use this boilerplate on a local machine for Android, emulator(s) need to be available. To setup your local machine you should download Android Studio, see for instructions here.

Follow the instructions to download and setup Android studio and configure a your emulators with this tutorial.

Please use Google to find the correct instructions to setup your environment (Windows / Mac / Linux).

Start the emulator

If you were able to create emulators you can use the following options to start the emulators

  • From Android Studio itself through:

    • Open Tools > AVD Manager

    Start Android AVD Manager

    • Select your emulator and click on the play-button

    Select emulator

  • From the command line with the default Android commands, see this link

  • Use a module called start-android-emulator which can be found here

It is advised to keep an emulator open and start tests against an already opened emulator to speed up tests. Starting an emulator manually/by Appium is time consuming and will slow down the test execution.

iOS

Make sure you have a Mac, if you don't have a Mac then buy/get one, otherwise it will not work (no legal way to use iOS on Windows/Linux).

To be able to configure iOS simulators you need to download Xcode on your machine, check this on how to install it.

iOS versions

After installation you'll get the latest supported iOS version already installed. At the moment of writing this was iOS 12.0. If you want an older version of iOS please download them manually by doing the following:

  1. Open Xcode (you don't need to start a project, having the project selector open is sufficient)

  2. Go to Xcode preferences like below

    Xcode preferences

  3. A pop-up will appear like below

    Xcode preferences pop-up

  4. Go to Components and download the needed versions like below

    Xcode components

Start a simulator

You can use the following options to manually start a simulator:

  • Through the Simulator app, find it on Mac and add it to your dock like below

    Simulator App

    Simulator start

  • Use a module called start-ios-simulator which can be found here. With this module you can easily use your terminal to select your simulator

It is advised to keep a simulator open and start tests against an already opened simulator to speed up tests. Starting a simulator manually/by Appium is time consuming and will slow down the test execution.