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Nov 02 - Nov 08, 2026

Test Frameworks

• agent-qa (⭐911) - Natural-language Android and iOS testing through Appium from vostride, with advanced memidex memory and self-improvement from verified runs.

Oct 26 - Nov 01, 2026

Test Frameworks

• Optics (⭐57) - Open-source Python framework that runs Android, iOS, Android TV, Samsung Tizen and LG webOS tests through Appium, written as CSV or YAML keyword steps, with element lookup that falls back from XPath to text, OCR and image matching.

Oct 19 - Oct 25, 2026

Cloud

• TestMu AI - AI-native cloud testing platform (formerly LambdaTest), run Appium tests in parallel on real Android and iOS devices.

Test Frameworks

• zosma-qa (⭐9) - Unified QA platform with one CLI for Appium mobile testing, Playwright web E2E, and k6 load tests — includes zero-config scaffolding, WebdriverIO test helpers, and AI agents that autonomously plan, generate, and self-heal your test suites.

Sample Apps for Practice

• FrontRow (⭐7) - Open source React Native concert ticketing app built specifically as a QA automation training surface. Ships Appium WebdriverIO and TypeScript scaffolds with full WDIO configs for iOS and Android, smoke and login specs, and a central testID registry that maps to accessibility identifiers on both platforms. Includes a QA Debug Menu with force error modes, time travel, and deterministic IAP outcomes for practising failure mode testing.

Sep 27 - Oct 03, 2021

Cloud and Docker Solutions

• TestingBot - Cloud based Device Farm, run Appium tests on physical Android and iOS devices.

Feb 17 - Feb 23, 2020

Become an Appium Pro

• Capturing App Launch Metrics On Android

• Visual Testing With Appium, Part 1

• Visual Testing With Appium, Part 2

• Visual Testing With Appium, Part 3

• AI for Appium--and Selenium!

• Mobile App Performance Testing

• Free Tools For Mobile App Performance Testing With Appium

• Simulating Different Network Conditions For Virtual Devices

• Paid Tools And Services For Mobile App Performance Testing

Dec 02 - Dec 08, 2019

Become an Appium Pro

• Using AI-based Object Detection For Finding Elements

• Managing Chromedriver for Android Chrome and Webview Testing

• Using the Appium Events API

• The 'Android Data Matcher' Locator Strategy

• Working With Cookies

Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2019

Become an Appium Pro

• Streaming Video from iOS Devices

• Speeding Up Android Screenshots With MJPEG Servers

• Reliably Opening Deep Links Across Platforms and Devices

• Batching Appium Commands Using Execute Driver Script to Speed Up Tests

• Connecting Directly to Appium Hosts in Distributed Environments

• Working With Android 10

• Saving Test Data To Make Debugging Easier Java

• Understanding Appium Drivers (And How To Choose Which One To Use)

• Optimizing Image Element Thresholds

• Getting Started With Appium For Android On Windows

Aug 12 - Aug 18, 2019

Become an Appium Pro

• Attaching Appium Clients to Existing Sessions

• Converting Java Tests to Kotlin

• Testing iOS Face ID with Appium

• Testing Windows Desktop Apps With Appium

Jul 15 - Jul 21, 2019

Become an Appium Pro

• Optimizing WebDriverAgent Startup Performance

Jul 08 - Jul 14, 2019

Become an Appium Pro

• Automating Custom IoT Devices With Appium, Part 1

• Automating Custom IoT Devices With Appium, Part 2

• Testing React Native Apps with Appium

Jun 17 - Jun 23, 2019

Become an Appium Pro

• Working with Multile Webviews in Android Hybrid Apps

Blogs

• All about Appium Desired Capabilities - All about Appium's desired capabilities.

Jun 10 - Jun 16, 2019

Become an Appium Pro

• Starting an Appium Server Programmatically Using AppiumServiceBuilder

• Simulating Slow Internet Connections on Android Emulators with Appium

May 27 - Jun 02, 2019

Become an Appium Pro

• Capturing Audio Output During Testing: Part 1

• Capturing Audio Output During Testing: Part 2

May 13 - May 19, 2019

Become an Appium Pro

• Automating Physical Buttons on iOS Devices

Test Frameworks

• coteafs-appium (⭐148) - A tester friendly Mobile Automation Framework built on top of Appium which supports testing web and native apps for Android, iOS and Windows real or emulator Mobiles and Tablets.

• Optimus - Cucumber based Mobile Automation Framework, which supports test parallelization.

• PageObject Pattern Framework (⭐187) - Sample Page Object Pattern Framework to use directly.

• Parallel Framework Java-Client (⭐1k) - Run appium tests in parallel across iOS and Android devices.

May 06 - May 12, 2019

Become an Appium Pro

• Generating Touch Gestures to Zoom In and Out on Google Maps

Apr 29 - May 05, 2019

Become an Appium Pro

• Capturing Network Traffic in Java with Appium

• Automating System Apps with Appium

Apr 15 - Apr 21, 2019

Become an Appium Pro

• How to Accurately Select Webviews Using the fullContextList Capability

• Capturing iOS Simulator Network Traffic with Appium

• Capturing Android Emulator Network Traffic with Appium

• Validating Android Toast Messages

Mar 25 - Mar 31, 2019

Become an Appium Pro

• How to Pick the Right Locator Strategy

Mar 18 - Mar 24, 2019

Become an Appium Pro

• How to Determine Element Locators For Mobile Web and Hybrid Apps

• How to Test on Headless Emulators and Simulators with Appium

• How to Automate Picker Wheel Controls

Feb 25 - Mar 03, 2019

Become an Appium Pro

• Using Appium With Selenium Grid

• Using Mobile Execution Commands to Continuously Stream Device Logs with Appium

• What Appium Users Need to Know about Android Activities and Intents

Jan 28 - Feb 03, 2019

Become an Appium Pro

• Accessing Android Logcat Logs with Appium

Jan 21 - Jan 27, 2019

Become an Appium Pro

• Calling Methods Inside Your App From Appium

• Automating Mac Apps with Appium

Jan 07 - Jan 13, 2019

Become an Appium Pro

• Special Capabilities for Speeding up Android Test Initialization

Dec 24 - Dec 30, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• How To Spread Some Holiday Cheer Using Appium

Dec 17 - Dec 23, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• How To Flash Elements On Screen While Debugging Appium Tests

Dec 10 - Dec 16, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• Running Appium From Source (Or The Latest Beta)

Dec 03 - Dec 09, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• Sending Arbitrary Keystrokes With The Actions API

Nov 26 - Dec 02, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• How to Automate Siri Voice Commands Using Appium

Nov 19 - Nov 25, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• Working With Web Components (Shadow DOM)

Nov 12 - Nov 18, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• How To Automatically Grant iOS App Permissions Using Appium

Nov 05 - Nov 11, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• Simulating Incoming Phone Calls On Android

Oct 29 - Nov 04, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• How To Test Real iOS Devices With Appium, Part 2

Blogs

• Adding AI to Appium - By test.ai

Oct 22 - Oct 28, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• How To Test On Real iOS Devices With Appium, Part 1

Oct 15 - Oct 21, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• Capturing Browser Errors and Logs in Android Web/Hybrid Apps

• Early-Stage AI for Appium Test Automation

Oct 01 - Oct 07, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• Capturing Browser Errors and Logs in iOS Web/Hybrid Apps

Sep 24 - Sep 30, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• Writing XPath Queries That Work

• Using The 'nativeWebTap' Capability

Sep 10 - Sep 16, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• Simulating Hardware Keys And Key Events On Android

Sep 03 - Sep 09, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• Finding Elements By Image, Part 2

Aug 27 - Sep 02, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• Automating Custom Alert Buttons on iOS

• Finding Elements By Image, Part 1

Aug 13 - Aug 19, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• iOS-Specific Touch Action Methods

Aug 06 - Aug 12, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• Automating Complex Gestures with the W3C Actions API

Jul 30 - Aug 05, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• Running Multiple Appium Tests in Parallel

Test Frameworks

• Appium-Native-Crawler (⭐55) - Appium Native Crawler CLI - Features include: Screenshots, Performance, Accessibility Detection, Google Translate, Applitools, Monkey Tester.

Jul 23 - Jul 29, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• Making Your Appium Tests Fast and Reliable, Part 9: When Things Go Wrong

Jul 16 - Jul 22, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• Making Your Appium Tests Fast and Reliable, Part 8: Mocking External Services

Jul 09 - Jul 15, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• Making Your Appium Tests Fast and Reliable, Part 7: Disabling Animations

Jul 02 - Jul 08, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• Anatomy of Logging in Appium

• Simulating SMS Messages on Android

• Capturing Performance Data for Native iOS Apps

• Switching Between iOS Apps During a Test

• How to Automate a Pop Rock Band

• Testing iOS Push Notifications

• Automating the Clipboard on iOS and Android

• Automating Cross-Platform Hybrid Apps

• Using Espresso With Appium

• Making Your Appium Tests Fast and Reliable, Part 1: Test Flakiness

• Making Your Appium Tests Fast and Reliable, Part 2: Finding Elements

• Making Your Appium Tests Fast and Reliable, Part 3: Waiting for App States

• Making Your Appium Tests Fast and Reliable, Part 4: Dealing With Unfindable Elements

• Making Your Appium Tests Fast and Reliable, Part 5: Setting Up App State

• Making Your Appium Tests Fast and Reliable, Part 6: Tuning Your Capabilities

Mar 19 - Mar 25, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• Testing Android App Upgrades

Mar 05 - Mar 11, 2018

Become an Appium Pro

• Seeding the iOS simulator with test photos

• Seeding an Android device with test photos

• Running arbitrary ADB commands via Appium

• Using Appium for Testing Mobile Web Apps

• Performance Testing of Android Apps

• Testing iOS App Upgrades

• Speeding Up Tests With Deep Links

• How to Find Elements in iOS (Not) By XPath

Blogs

• Uncover invisible changes in automated tests - By KazuCocoa

Jan 01 - Jan 07, 2018

Test Frameworks

• Appium Cucumber Test (⭐37) - Sample Appium Cucumber Project.

Aug 14 - Aug 20, 2017

Server

• Appium (⭐22k) - Appium is an open source, cross-platform test automation tool for native, hybrid and mobile web and desktop apps, tested on simulators (iOS), emulators (Android), and real devices (iOS, Android, Windows, Mac).

Blogs

• Appium Architecture & Appium Desktop - Appium Architecture, settings, etc (Updated)

Cloud and Docker Solutions

• Official Appium Docker Images (⭐674) - DockerFile for Appium Android Real Devices.

• Appium Docker Images (⭐16k) - DockerFile for Appium Android.

Mar 06 - Mar 12, 2017

Blogs

• IMAGE RECOGNITION WITH APPIUM - USING APPIUM FOR MOBILE GAME TESTING

Dec 19 - Dec 25, 2016

Blogs

• WinAppDriver - WinAppDriver - Test any app with Appium's Selenium-like tests on Windows

Dec 12 - Dec 18, 2016

Blogs

• Appium + Mobile Game Testing - MOBILE GAME TESTING – PART #2: UI AND FUNCTIONALITY + IMAGE RECOGNITION

Nov 28 - Dec 04, 2016

Blogs

• GraphWalker - GraphWalker is a open source Model-based testing tool for test automation. It's designed to make it easy to design your tests using graphs

Nov 14 - Nov 20, 2016

Blogs

• [Inspect iOS app's with Appium 1.6] (https://medium.com/@chenchaoyi/the-options-of-inspecting-ios-10-app-with-appium-1-6-534ba166b958#.ezq1q0iuo) - The options of inspecting iOS 10 app with Appium 1.6

Oct 31 - Nov 06, 2016

Blogs

• Android setup Linux - From Zero To Appium: A How-To Guide For Configuring Appium With Android

• [Useful Appium Series] (http://bitbar.com/tag/appium/) - Appium Tip Series

Oct 24 - Oct 30, 2016

Tutorials

• Testing Diaries - Appium Tutorial for Complete Beginners.

Aug 22 - Aug 28, 2016

Clients

• Ruby (⭐218)

• Python (⭐1.8k)

• Java (⭐1.3k)

• JavaScript

• Objective C (⭐81)

• PHP (⭐70)

• C# (.NET) (⭐398)

• RobotFramework (⭐428)

Inspectors

• Appium Desktop (⭐4.8k) - Appium Server and Inspector in Desktop GUIs for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

• WebDriverAgent Inspector (⭐4.3k) - A WebDriver server for iOS that runs inside the Simulator.

• Selendroid Inspector - The web app which is embedded inside your selendroid test server.

• Appium iOS Inspector (⭐146) - The tool for iOS elements location based on the original source of Selendroid Inspector.

• app-inspector (⭐387) - Macacajs App Inspector.

Tutorials

• TOOLSQA - Appium tutorial for beginners (Android & iOS).

• GURU99 - Appium tutorial for beginners.

• QTPSELENIUM - Appium tutorials.

• Appium Bootcamp - Appium Bootcamp by Sauce.

• Appium Mobile Grid Setup - The Mobile Grid – Getting Started for Android & iOS.

• Selenium Camp 2016 - Selenium Camp 2016.

Blogs

• Appium Architecture - Architecture of Appium.

• All about Appium - All about Appium in Wordpress.

• Appium with Image Recognition - Appium with Image Recognition - Simon Kaz.

• Automate Android Actions using Appium - Automate Android Actions using Appium - kkashyap1707.

• Network Connection in Appium - How to deal with Network Connection from Appium 4.0.0 - Elias Nogueira.

• How to change language in Appium - Appium Tips — Changing the app Language - Elias Nogueira.

• Automated UI testing of a UWP app using Appium - Windows Application driver makes UWP Apps compatible using Appium - Yassine benabbas.

• Context Switching in Appium Switching to a Dynamically Named Context Handle with Appium and Java - Kevin Berg.

• A Robot Should Be Running Your Appium Tests - How to run Appium Tests using Robots. - Dan Cuellar.

• Appium Tests on Buddybuild - Automates building, deploying and gathering feedback for mobile apps - Stipe Kolovrat.

Workshops

• Appium Workshop Selnium Conf 2016 (⭐26) - Repo for Appium Workshop at the 2016 Selenium Conference - Justin Ison.

Cloud and Docker Solutions

• Appium Tests in AWS Device Farm (⭐92) - Sample Appium tests runs on AWS Device Farm.

• Appium Tests in OpenSTF Device Farm (⭐110) - Sample Appium tests runs on STF Device Farm.

• Appium Docker File (⭐7) - DockerFile for Appium Android.

• Appium Docker File (⭐8) - DockerFile for Appium Android.

Git Books

• Appium Essentials - Explore mobile automation with Appium and discover new ways to test native, web, and hybrid applications - Manoj Hans.

• Appium for Android - A quick reference book on how to use Appium for automating Android Application using Java - Nishant Verma.

Aug 15 - Aug 21, 2016

Community

• Discuss

• Stack Overflow

• @appiumdevs on Twitter

• #appium on Slack