Testing with multiple devices about robotframework-appiumlibrary

[jollychang]

It's a feature request of appium , you can check it out https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/appium-discuss/xKCt4HrerrU and appium/appium#462

[yahman72]

Yeah, but I meant to support this with the current appium implementation: run two instances of appium (e.g. using different ports) and connect one device per appium instance e.g.
Open Application http://localhost:4723/wd/hub ... alias = 1stDevice
Open Application http://localhost:4724/wd/hub ... alias = 2ndDevice

I thought this might be already implemented (or will be implemented soon) in the appiumLibrary because the "open application" already accepts "alias" as parameter and the code seems to use the ConnectionCache to store the applications.
Were there any plans to implement something like this?

[jollychang]

It's no plan to implement something like this, If you are interesting that, open a pull request :)

[yahman72]

I'm Already working on it :-)
On 6 Oct 2014 18:33, "William Zhang" [email protected] wrote:

It's no plan to implement something like this, If you are interesting
that, open a pull request :)

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[rahulLiving]

Does this support running Appium on multiple device by creating just one instance ? Is it implemented by now ?

[rahulLiving]

And if it does ? how to use it with my current Appium project ?
Thanks

[yahman72]

No, you still need one appium instance per device.

[yahman72]

FYI:
There summary of the above mentioned Appium Feature requests is:
You always need an appium instance for each device i.e. you cannot control multiple devices over one appium connection.
see appium/appium#4001