Setting up the Appium Tool on Windows

Here are the steps to setting up the Appium Tool on Windows..

Prerequisites: This is a short list of software and hardware required for automating a mobile App testing using Appium

Your PC should have JDK, Appium Studio (Go here and download Appium for Windows.), Visual Studio, Android SDK installed
Apk: Android Mobile Application to be automated (.apk file)
Testing Device: In this case Samsung S7
dlls: Webdriver.dll, WebDriver.Support.dll
USB driver for Testing Device: In this case Samsung S7 driver should be installed.

Step #1: Download and install Android SDK here and update the APIs

To update API, Open Visual Studio-> Click on Tools Menu and -> Click on “Android” ->Select Android SDK manager

Update the APIs as shown in the below Screenshot:

Android SDK Manager - TechTutorialz

Step #2: Now we need to install Appium for Windows. Go here and download Appium for Windows.

Step #3: Install Node JS from here: Node JS download

Step #4: Verify that Android SDK is installed in your system.

Check the path for tools and platform-tool present in Android SDK path.

C:\Users\Your username\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\

Step #5: Access adb

Press Win+R keys combination
Type CMD. Now in CMD type ‘adb’. adb will be accessible

You can open the Android ADB command prompt from visual studio too.

Open Visual Studio-> Click on Tools Menu and -> Click on “Android” ->Select “Android ADB command prompt”

Adb - Techtutorialz.com

Step# 6) In adb terminal type ‘adb devices’ , This command will display the list of devices attached.
C:\Users\Yourusername>adb devices
List of devices attached
DeviceID device