Testing iOS multiple device - Java client

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Good morning.
I’m trying to use appium, with java client.
I had a few problems to start server from java code, but this is not important, and I can use the driver to manage my app.
Now, I would use two drivers on two different devices simultaneously.
Is there a way to do this, using a single Mac?

I saw that there was a restriction in Automator to use 1 device for Mac… Is there always this problem, in 2016?

Thanks!

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Hi Griffith,
You can run multiple iOS devices from single mac machine.
to do so, you need to launch appium server instance with two tmp directory locations.
appium -tmp -p 6001
appium -tmp -p 6002

Thanks,
Priyank Shah

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Thank you…
I tried to do this, but i saw that, when i create another driver, this driver kills the other instance of Instrument…
I used this code:
appium -p 4723 --tmp /tmp/tmp4723 -bp 5723 --session-override --> First instance
appium -p 4724 --tmp /tmp/tmp4724 -bp 5724 --session-override --> Second instance

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basically, you need to instantiate two desired capabilities (with device UDID), which binds with each server instance.

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I also did it…
I used this code:
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.NEW_COMMAND_TIMEOUT, APPIUM_NEW_COMMAND_TIMEOUT);
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.TAKES_SCREENSHOT, true);
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_NAME, deviceName);
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.APP, appPath);
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.UDID, udid);
driver = new IOSDriver<>(new URL(“http://127.0.0.1:”+portNumber+"/wd/hub"), capabilities);

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DesiredCapabilities capabilities1 = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.NEW_COMMAND_TIMEOUT, APPIUM_NEW_COMMAND_TIMEOUT);
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.TAKES_SCREENSHOT, true);
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_NAME, deviceName);
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.APP, appPath);
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.UDID, udid1);
driver1 = new IOSDriver<>(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:"+portNumber1+"/wd/hub"), capabilities1);

DesiredCapabilities capabilities2 = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.NEW_COMMAND_TIMEOUT, APPIUM_NEW_COMMAND_TIMEOUT);
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.TAKES_SCREENSHOT, true);
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_NAME, deviceName);
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.APP, appPath);
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.UDID, udid2);
driver2 = new IOSDriver<>(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:"+portNumber2+"/wd/hub"), capabilities2);