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Setup MacOS for Android and iOS Automation

Step 1: Install Homebrew

Homebrew is the most popular MacOS package manager. Homebrew installs packages to their own directory and then symlinks their files into /usr/local.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Step 2: Install Java8(OpenJDK version "1.8.0_292")

Install by Homebrew

brew install --cask adoptopenjdk/openjdk/adoptopenjdk8

Verify installation by Java cli

java -version

java version

Step 3: Setup the Java Version

If you use zsh, open ~/.zshrc file to add below commands. Otherwise, add into ~/.profile file. If your environment has multiple version of Java, make sure using the Java 8.

# Note:
# There are many ways to open the `~/.zshrc` file. ex: `vim`, `nano`, etc.

# Use open command to open it, and it will open the file by system default app
open ~/.zshrc

# Set Java Path
export JAVA_HOME="/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-8.jdk/Contents/Home"

export PATH="/usr/local/Cellar/maven/3.8.6/bin:${PATH}"

Note that this setting JAVA_HOME doesn't load into the session. Please execute the below commands to make sure all things are right

# Reload the shell
exec "${SHELL}"

# Verify the setting
echo "${JAVA_HOME}"

java path

Step 4: Install Android Studio

  1. Download the Android Studio, and launch the application

  2. Open the app click on Next, and configure and click on finish

  3. Install SDK version as required your project

  4. Install SDK Tools

  5. Setup the required path, like the Step 3, add below commands into ~/.zshrc or ~/.profile

    # Set Android Path
export ANDROID_HOME="/Users/$( whoami )/Library/Android/sdk"
export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH"
export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$PATH"
export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/build-tools/33.0.0:$PATH"
export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/build-tools/33.0.0/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/emulator:$PATH"

  6. Reload the ~/.zshrc and then execute the below command to verify the setting

    # Reload the shell
exec "${SHELL}"

sdkmanager --list

# It will popup the window
uiautomatorviewer

Step 5: Install Xcode from app store

Open the app store, and typing xcode on search button then install it

  1. Open the Xcode from applications folder and install required components

  2. Install command line if you haven't installed

    xcode-select --install

  3. Install Carthage

    • Change the permissions and accept the Xcode license.

      sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/share/man/man5 /usr/local/share/man/man7

sudo xcodebuild -license accept

    • Install Carthage by homebrew

      brew install carthage

Step 6: Install Appium

Install nvm by Homebrew, nvm is node version manager tool

# nvm is node.js version manager tool
brew install nvm

# Download node.js with v16.17.0
nvm install v16.17.0

# Set v16.17.0 as node default version
nvm alias default 16.17

# Install appium and appium-doctor on global
npm install -g appium@1.22.3 appium-doctor

# Diagnostic your current environment for iOS
appium-doctor --ios

# Diagnostic your current environment for android
appium-doctor --android

Step 7: Install libimobiledevice

libimobiledevice is A cross-platform FOSS library written in C to communicate with iOS devices natively

brew install libimobiledevice

Step 8: Install libplist

  1. Install prerequests packages

    brew install make automake autoconf libtool pkg-config gcc

  2. Clone the project

    git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist.git
cd libplist

  3. Now you can build and install it

    ./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

Step 9: Install usbmuxd

  1. Clone the project

    git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/usbmuxd.git
cd usbmuxd

  2. Now you can build and install it

    ./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

Step 10: Install usbmuxd

  1. Clone the project

    git clone https://github.com/corellium/usbfluxd.git
cd usbfluxd

  2. Now you can build and install it

    ./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

Step 11: Setup required path

Like the Step 3, add below commands into ~/.zshrc or ~/.profile

export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:${PATH}"

Step 12: Install ifuse

brew install ifuse

Step 13: Install ffmpeg

A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.

brew install ffmpeg

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