Setup appium on Mac OS and inspect iPhone apps

In this post, we will see how we can setup appium on MacOS to inspect iPhone or iOS apps,

In our Appium tutorials, We have seen how to setup appium in windows OS / Mac OS, and use appium to inspect android applications.

For iOS applications, you need to have .app file else you should have the source code of application, so you can build to get the .app file

Watch the video to see it action [Appium on MacOS and inspect iOS apps]

Resource links

Appium for MacOS – 

https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/releases

Git command to pull the code – 

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/appium/ios-uicatalog.git

Xcode – 

https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

.app file path – 

/Users/[userName]/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/UICatalog-haobvnvzmsktgahlazsgytfklbvz/Build/
Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/UICatalog.app

Command to find the bundle id – 

osascript -e 'id of app "UICatalog.app"'

Appium desired capabilities – 

https://appium.io/docs/en/writing-running-appium/caps/

For complete download and setup of appium on windows or mac, follow here