Running appium programatically in mac terminal using Java - ios-ui-automation

Question

I want to start appium server programatically in mac using Java.
Can any one help me how to write the code to start appium.
Thanks..

Answer 1

You can launch appium server programmatically with below piece of code.
appium = AppiumDriverLocalService.buildService(new AppiumServiceBuilder()
.withAppiumJS(new File("/usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/build/lib/main.js"))
.usingPort(4723).withIPAddress("127.0.0.1"));
appium.start();
If you want to launch from terminal you can run below command
/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/bin/appium.js
If you want to specify the simulator and app details etc you can run below command.
node /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/bin/appium.js --address 127.0.0.1 --port 4723 --full-reset
--device-name "iPhone 6"
--platform-name iOS
--platform-version "8.3"
--app "/My.app"
--browser-name iOS
For this the node executable should be added to the path.
For starting appium 1.5.3 go through below link.
starting appium 1.5.3 programmatically

Answer 2

This line will start appium:
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("appium");
Bonus - The next loop will wait until there will be a message from the executed command
(Please note that It doesn't check the output itself, it just waits until there is one - it works great for me)
while ((stdInput.readLine()) == null) {
Thread.sleep(1000);
}
After this you can continue with running the project knowing that the Appium server has started

Answer 3

Try following:
AppiumDriverLocalService appiumServer = AppiumDriverLocalService.buildService(new AppiumServiceBuilder()
.withAppiumJS(new File("/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/appium/build/lib/main.js"))
.usingPort(4723).withIPAddress("127.0.0.1"));
appiumServer.start();