Appium + selenium webdriver in windows using c# bindings

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Hi, I am currently working as automation test analyst and the company i am working for has asked me to implement Mobile automation. I have heard that appium is nice and free source tool.

But i am struggling to find enough information online on how to setup on appium in windows 8 and writing test scripts in c# on android devices.

If anyone can give me step by step process of how to setup the appium on my machine and any sample code including framework and test scripts in c# is much APPRECIATED.

Thanks in Advance.

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There’s plenty of docs on the site: http://developer.android.com/tools/debugging/debugging-ui.html
There are docs there for setting up on windows :smile:

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Hi Jonahss,

thanks for the link, that dosen’t really help me. Am looking for a sample project that would help me to setup automation on windows using appium and writing automation scripts in c# and selenium webdriver

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Just download Appium from appium.io and extract it in your local drive (C drive recommended with no spaces on folder name).

Download selenium for C# at this link: http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.44/selenium-dotnet-2.44.0.zip

Add WebDriver.dll in your references (Much easier if you are using Visual Studio).

Then you can start coding…

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Hi Mitsram,

Thanks for the responding and it is quite useful. Is there any sample project to look at?

thanks in advance

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Thanks for the link, appreciate it.

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I have managed to setup dotnet project and started writing a basic login test for a mobile the app i am testing.

When i viewed in UI Automator View the Username and Password field has same class name

I have managed to type the username but i am struggling to find the exact location of the password field to type the password using “sendkeys”.

I have tried different methods like:
IWebElement element = driver.FindElementByXPath(“”);
element.Click();
element.SendKeys(“password”);
pswrd.SendKeys(“password”);

And
Dictionary<String, Double> coords = new Dictionary<string, double>();
coords.Add(“x”, 35384);
coords.Add(“y”, 785429);
driver.ExecuteScript(“mobile: tap”, coords);

Nothings works for me.

Can any one help me please? Thanks

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In my experience, finding element by class is not reliable. You should use resouce-id. But it seems your resource-id is blank. What’s your Android version? Higher version should display resource-id. I have an example for finding by id.Try this:
WebDriver driver = null;
List"<“WebElement”>" elements = driver.findElements(By.id(object id));
elements.get(0).sendKeys(“username”);
elements.get(1).sendKeys(“password”);

That code is in Java. You can easily convert that to C#.

HTH

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I am using android 4.4(kitkat) on nexus 7.

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can we click on using the co-ordinates that are available in UI Automator viewer?

many thanks

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yes.

public void tapScreen(int xCoordinate, int yCoordinate) {
JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
HashMap"<“String, Integer”>" tapObject = new HashMap"<“String, Integer”>"();
tapObject.put(“x”, xCoordinate);
tapObject.put(“y”, yCoordinate);
js.executeScript(“mobile: tap”, tapObject);
}

ignore the double quote “<” or “>” in the code. it will not display in the post without the double quotes

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Thanks mitsram,

You are a star, it worked with your below script. ofcourse i have modified it into c#

List"<“WebElement”>" elements = driver.findElements(By.id(object id));
elements.get(0).sendKeys(“username”);
elements.get(1).sendKeys(“password”);

That code is in Java. You can easily convert that to C#.

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HI Kumar_v. Can you send me total details of how to use appium in C#(With installation details).I also want to use this for android application automation in C#.
Anybody else Please help me in this …i want to generation android automation test script using only c#

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Please send me tutorial for this in my mail id : [email protected] in advance if anybody can help me.

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Looking for sample project of appium with framework part to.I have to automate one pp.
ANybody have any sample project or material.Please sample me at [email protected]