How can I create appium driver programmatically

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I am working on Appium 2.0. I want targeted drivers (UiAutomator2 or XCUITest) to be installed programmatically while executing the test
How can I do that?

2

Take a look at capabilities and ‘automationName’ specifically. Specifying correct value there (XCUItest or UIAutomator2, for example) should get you what you are looking for.

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I am sending these capabilities, this works in Appium 1.0
But in appium 2.0 we have to create drivers manually using command
appium driver install uiautomator2

but I do not want to do this manually but programattically

This is my entire code
AppiumServiceBuilder builder;
builder = new AppiumServiceBuilder().withArgument(() -> “–base-path”, “/wd/hub”).withArgument(() -> “–plugins”, “images”);
builder.usingAnyFreePort();
builder.usingDriverExecutable(new File(“path_to_nodejs\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();
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(“appium:platformName”, “Android”);
capabilities.setCapability(“deviceName”, “Android Emulator”);
capabilities.setCapability(“appium:automationName”, “UiAutomator2”);
capabilities.setCapability(“app”, “app_path\Learn_Android_With_Source_Code.apk”);

    androidDriver = new AndroidDriver<AndroidElement>(service.getUrl(), capabilities);
    androidDriver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(3, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    return androidDriver;
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Why it would be necessary to install a driver every time a new test starts? I assume it is actually possible to request drivers install upon appium package installation

5

Ok that means driver has to be install manually when I installing appium on my machine.

6

But still if I wanted to do it programmatically how can it be done.
We have product which codeless automation tool and we are using APPIUM APIs underneath of Mobile test Automation. Currently we are bundling Appium 1.x with that product.
SO the question is if we want to move to Appium 2.0 how driver installation will taken place on clients end with appium 2.0 we can bundle appium server but how can driver installation happen

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Can someone please help me on this?

I am working on appium 2.0 POC for our product
we have appium v1.21 bundled in our product. But now we want to bundled 2.0 only problem is with installing drivers?

can someone please share if there is any article or ref doc which says how to initiate driver programmatically
can you please check this @mykola-mokhnach

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I have the exact same problem, and I’m really stuck.
If you found a solution, I would like to know how you got around the problem?