Mobile Testing With Appium-Step 2

Step 2: Installing Android SDK in Windows

What is Android SDK?

It is software development kit which enables you to create applications for Android platform.It also provides capabilities to create emulators to test the applications.
Android SDK is a prerequisite to run and test on Android platform using Appium.

System Requirements

2 GB RAM minimum, 4 GB RAM (Recommended)
Microsoft® Windows® 8/7/Vista/2003 (32 or 64-bit)
20-30 GB Hard disk space.

To download try this link

In Download options go to “Get just the command line tools” and select the version with no installer

Download and unzip the folder. You will get a folder named “android-sdk-windows”. Locate the folder in one of the drives of your computer having the required capacity (I’ll save it in E drive and rename it as SDK)

To create Android emulators you need few packages. For that go to your SDK folder. There is an exe file naned “SDK Manager.exe”. Double click on that, then it will install Android SDK Tools package by default.You can select and install the required packages as shown below.

After installing the required packages you need to set the ANDROID_HOME and Path Environment variables.

Open Environment variables window (Right click on My Computer>>Properties>>Advanced System Settings>>Environment Variables)

Click on New under user variables to add a new user variable. Set variable name to ANDROID_HOME and value to E:\SDK (Path of SDK folder). Click on OK to confirm.

Now let’s set the Path variables….

Open your SDK folder. There you will find tools and platform-tools folders. Copy path of both these folders.( e.g. E:\SDK\tools and E:\SDK\platform-tools\)

Open Environment variables window and under System variables select Path variable and click on Edit .Append the path of both tools and platform-tool folders separated by semicolons.(Refer the below image). Confirm the configurations by clicking OK

In order to verify Android Is Installed And Configured Properly follow the below steps…..

Open the command prompt in your computer and type the command android. If Android is installed and configured successfully it will open up the SDK manager.