Appium Setup

Appium Desktop - (GUI)

1. Go to https://appium.io/downloads.html
2. Check for the link for Appium Desktop app as shown below.   
   
3. Download appropriate file for your OS and install it.
4. After Installation, open Appium app.
   
5. Before starting the server, Click Edit Configurations.
6. Install Java and provide JAVA_HOME variable. 
   
7. Follow this article to setup Android Home
8. Save and Start the server. 

Appium Node Server  - (Command Line) 

1. Download and install nodejs. 
2. After nodejs installation, open a terminal/command prompt and run below command to install appium command line version. 
   

   npm install -g appium

3. To start appium server, open a terminal and run below command
   

   appium

4. This starts the appium server on its default port 4723. If we wanted to change the port, say 4700, start the appium server with below command
   

   appium -p 4700