setting up iOS automation using appium

You can follow below steps to set up the Appium environment in Mac OS X. You can install Appium.app from https://appium.io/downloads.html and start the server from GUI. It’s that simple. But you can install the appium from command line as well. You will need below software tools

• Mac OSX 10.7 or higher
• Xcode - 4.6.3 (Note that Xcode also installs the simulators like iPhone, iPad ect)
• Command line build tools from within Xcode – https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/technotes/tn2339/_index.html
• Java

Here are the commands to install node and appium.

 
brew install node
npm install -g appium
appium &

To uninstall appium, use below command.

 
npm uninstall -g appium

To kill the appium server, use below command

 
ps aux | grep appium
kill -9 <process id>