monilj
1
I am aware of starting Appium 1.x programmatically but not able to do it for Appium 2.0
AppiumServiceBuilder builder = new AppiumServiceBuilder();
builder.usingAnyFreePort();
builder.usingDriverExecutable(new File("<path to Node>\\node.exe"));
builder.withAppiumJS(new File("<path to Appium>\\appium"));
HashMap<String, String> environment = new HashMap();
environment.put("PATH", "/usr/local/bin:" + System.getenv("PATH"));
builder.withEnvironment(environment);
service = AppiumDriverLocalService.buildService(builder);
service.start();
monilj
2
0
install appium 2.0 using below command
npm install -g appium@next
Make sure there path for nodejs in system environment variable In User Variable add new Key NODE_PATH and APPIUM_PATH
For NODE_PATH put value as C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe
For APPIUM_PATH put value as C:\Users<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appium\node_modules.bin
In this case it will start Appium Server 2.0 but test will still fail with No route found for /wd/hub/session"
I am working on it with reference to https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/15261