Appium iOS Environment Setup Steps without GUI

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Appium iOS Environment Setup Steps

After Installation OSX

• Remove unnecessary dock items.

• Allow remote login (ssh) and screen sharing on system preferences.

iTunes Configuration

• Open iTunes and accept user agreement.

• If update is available, install last version.

Update OSX

• Open App Store and install last version.

Install Xcode and Command Line Tools

• Xcode installer needs environment variables with your credentials to access the Apple Developer Center. Set these variables in the .bashrc file:

   XCODE_INSTALL_USER
   XCODE_INSTALL_PASSWORD
  

• Load new environment variables

   source ~/.bashrc
  

• Install Xcode command line installer (xcversion)

   curl -sL -O https://github.com/neonichu/ruby-domain_name/releases/download/v0.5.99999999/domain_name-0.5.99999999.gem
   sudo gem install domain_name-0.5.99999999.gem
   sudo gem install --conservative xcode-install
   rm -f domain_name-0.5.99999999.gem
   xcversion install 7.3.1

• Install Command Line Tools

   xcversion install-cli-tools

• Accept Xcode Licence

   sudo xcodebuild -license accept

• Setting up instruments without delay (iwd) for xcode 7 and iOS >= 9.0

  For iOS >= 9.0 instruments without delay (iwd) does not work by passing binaries through the command line (appium does this under the hood for xcode < 7). See iwd

  For enabling iwd for xcode >= 7,

  • Checkout appium-instruments
  • Run xcode-iwd.sh present in <appium-instruments>/bin/

   sh <appium-instruments>/bin/xcode-iwd.sh <path to xcode> <path to appium-instruments>

  eg. sh ./bin/xcode-iwd.sh /Applications/Xcode.app /Users/xyz/appium-instruments/

  Note: iwd with xcode7 will only work for iOS >= 9.0, you can switch to older xcode for iOS < 9.0

Install Brew

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Install Node.js

brew install node

Install Java

brew install java

Install Appium (version 1.5.*)

npm install -g appium

Enable Xcode “Developer Mode”

sudo /usr/sbin/DevToolsSecurity --enable

Install ideviceinstaller

brew install ideviceinstaller
sudo chmod -R 777 /var/db/lockdown/

Install iOS WebKit Debug Proxy

brew install ios-webkit-debug-proxy

Set Auto-login

git clone https://github.com/mehmetboraezer/autologin && cd autologin/source
sudo chmod +x autologin.sh keygen.py
sudo ./autologin.sh <USERNAME> <PASSWORD>

Disable screensaver

sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver loginWindowIdleTime
sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver loginWindowModulePath

Disable password requirement after sleep or etc.

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to set require password to wake of security preferences to false'

Generate a random "ComputerName" at each reboot

echo '@reboot /usr/sbin/scutil --set ComputerName $RANDOM' > cron
sudo crontab cron && rm cron

Disable Notification Service

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist
killall -9 NotificationCenter

Install Python3

brew install python3
brew linkapps python3
pip3 install virtualenv

Turn off notifications from startup

sudo defaults write -g ApplePersistence -bool no

Reboot system

sudo shutdown -r now "Rebooting now"