Using –default-capabilities flag
It has been seen that Appium 1.5 does away with most CLI flags that existed previously, further the remainder can be converted into JSON and made part of the –default-capabilities flag. Let us illustrate this with the helps of an example –
# raw JSON as an argument
–default-capabilities ‘{“app”: “myapp.app”, “deviceName”: “iPhone Simulator”}’
# or the name of a JSON file
–default-capabilities /path/to/file.json
Moreover, windows users will need to escape the quotes in JSON passed on the command line including :
–default-capabilities “{\”app\”: \”myapp.app\”}”
Table illustrating Default Capability Flag ad respective JSON Key
| Flag | JSON key |
| –keep-artifacts | keepArtifacts |
| –platform-name | platformName |
| –platform-version | platformVersion |
| –automation-name | automationName |
| –device-name | deviceName |
| –browser-name | browserName |
| –app | app |
| –launch-timeout | launchTimeout |
| –language | language |
| –locale | locale |
| –udid | udid |
| –orientation | orientation |
| –no-reset | noReset |
| –full-reset | fullReset |
| –app-pkg | appPackage |
| –app-activity | appActivity |
| –app-wait-package | appWaitPackage |
| –app-wait-activity | appWaitActivity |
| –device-ready-timeout | deviceReadyTimeout |
| –android-coverage | androidCoverage |
| –avd | avd |
| –avd-args | avdArgs |
| –use-keystore | useKeystore |
| –keystore-path | keystorePath |
| –keystore-password | keystorePassword |
| –key-alias | keyAlias |
| –key-password | keyPassword |
| –intent-action | intentAction |
| –intent-category | intentCategory |
| –intent-flags | intentFlags |
| –intent-args | optionalIntentArguments |
| –dont-stop-app-on-reset | dontStopAppOnReset |
| –calendar-format | calendarFormat |
| –native-instruments-lib | nativeInstrumentsLib |
| –keep-keychains | keepKeyChains |
| –localizable-strings-dir | localizableStringsDir |
| –show-ios-log | showIOSLog |
| –reboot | reboot |
