Installing Appium Inspector on Windows 10

How to install Appium Inspector on Windows 10?

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In this quick guide, you’ll learn how to install and use one of the most popular tools for Automating tests on both Mobile and desktop devices.

Navigate to the Appium Inspector GitHub page.

Note that the Inspector tool is now separate from the Appium Desktop one.

Go to the Releases page to download the latest stable version.

Once you’ve downloaded it, when you try to install the application on your machine, you’ll be greeted by this message.

Install

Click on the Run anyway option if you trust the download.

Only for me

Wait for the installation to complete.

Wait to complete

Keep the Run Appium Inspector menu on.

Complete installation

Click on Finish.

Appium Inspector will load up.

Appium Inspector

Appium Server

If you’re going to run an Appium Server yourself, you can fill in the details for the:

  • Remote Host
  • Remote Path
  • Remote Port
  • Select SSL

Once done, you can then select your “Desired Capabilities” for launching your app.

Cloud Provider

For work, I instead use a Cloud Provider as running both Android & iOS devices locally can be tedious.

Cloud Providers

I select on BrowserStack and click on Done.

Select BrowserStack

We now have the BrowserStack item appearing in the tab.

BrowserStack

Just enter your BrowserStack Username and Access Key along with your desired capabilities to have access to your app rendered on a real device.

You can copy them from your Dashboard in the Access Key menu.

Dashboard

Connect to an App.

Connect to an App

The menu icons have been updated.

Updates

There’s even a Web/Hybrid mode switch.

Mode change

FAQ

Invalid or unsupported WebDriver capabilities found.

Error

If you’re having any issues, a good way of debugging is proceeding by elimination, which means removing one desired capability at a time and testing if the rest works. Or, on the other side, start with one capability at a time.

I solve this bug by letting the option “Automatically add necessary Appium vendor prefixes on start”.

I guess that may be in the earlier versions, Appium Desktop added these prefixes by default.