Unable to launch apk using appium. error: Unhandled error: Error: connect ECONNREFUSED

wreed · June 15, 2017, 7:49pm

I looked all around for an answer for this but I’m not sure. The best I’ve found is the release notes for Appium 1.6.0, which just states ‘support’ for Xcode 8. I have no idea if you can use Xcode 7 with Appium 1.6.5:

Sure. But if you want to use the capabilities you need to start the ‘Driver’ after you start the server. Have you looked at any of the tutorial’s or sample code like this one (note that you may want to move away from the GUI and to a Node install when doing this):

github.com

appium-boneyard/sample-code/blob/master/sample-code/examples/java/junit/src/test/java/com/saucelabs/appium/UICatalogTest.java

package com.saucelabs.appium;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotSame;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
import io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver;
import io.appium.java_client.MobileElement;
import io.appium.java_client.ios.IOSDriver;
import io.appium.java_client.ios.IOSElement;

import java.io.File;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.commons.lang.RandomStringUtils;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;

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Appium should automatically start up the App for you. Take a look at starting the driver and see if that doesn’t take care of this.