Install Environment on Windows

Table of contents

  1. General
    1. Chocolatey
    2. Java
      1. JDK
      2. Java Home
    3. Git
    4. IntelliJ IDEA
    5. NodeJS
    6. Allure Commandline
    7. GitHub Desktop
  2. Advance
    1. Android Studio
      1. IDE
      2. SDK
      3. Emulator
      4. Android Home
    2. Appium
      1. Server
      2. Driver
      3. Plugin
      4. Inspector

🔲 → Optional
✅ → Required
🔘 → Pick One
ℹ️ → Information

General

Chocolatey

https://ngoanh2n.github.io/blog/env/chocolatey

✅ Installation

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

✅ Allow Confirmation

choco feature enable --name allowGlobalConfirmation

Open Windows PowerShell with administrator privileges

🔲 Validation

choco --version

ℹ️ Location

C:\ProgramData\chocolatey

Java

JDK

https://ngoanh2n.github.io/blog/env/java#windows-jdk

✅ Installation

🔘 Eclipse Temurin

choco install temurin21

🔘 Amazon Corretto

choco install corretto21jdk

Open Command Prompt with administrator privileges

Java Home

https://ngoanh2n.github.io/blog/env/java#windows-java-home

✅ Setting

setx /m JAVA_HOME "{LOCATION}" & refreshenv
setx /m PATH "%PATH%;%JAVA_HOME%\bin" & refreshenv

☑ Open Command Prompt with administrator privileges
☑ Replace {LOCATION} by your installation directory

🔲 Validation

echo %JAVA_HOME%
java --version

ℹ️ Location

🔘 Eclipse Temurin

C:\Program Files\Eclipse Adoptium\jdk-XX-hotspot

🔘 Amazon Corretto

C:\Program Files\Amazon Corretto\jdkXX

Git

https://ngoanh2n.github.io/blog/env/git

✅ Installation

choco install git

Open Command Prompt with administrator privileges

🔲 Validation

git --version

IntelliJ IDEA

https://ngoanh2n.github.io/blog/env/intellij-idea

✅ Installation

🔘 Chocolatey

choco install intellijidea-community

Open Command Prompt with administrator privileges

🔘 Setup Wizard

  1. Visit https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/?section=windows
  2. Click Download at IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition section
  3. Open ideaIC-XXX.X.X.exe in Downloads
  4. Do installation procedures of Setup Wizard

NodeJS

https://ngoanh2n.github.io/blog/env/nodejs#windows

🔲 Installation

🔘 Chocolatey

choco install nodejs-lts

✅ Path Setting

setx /m PATH "%PATH%;C:\Program Files\nodejs" & refreshenv
setx /m PATH "%PATH%;C:\{USER}\AppData\Roaming\npm" & refreshenv

☑ Open Command Prompt with administrator privileges
☑ Replace {USER} by your current username

🔘 Setup Wizard

  1. Visit https://nodejs.org/en/download
  2. Click Windows Installer
  3. Open the node-v20.xx.x-xxx.msi in Downloads
  4. Do installation procedures of Setup Wizard

🔲 Validation

node --version
npm --version

ℹ️ Location

C:\Program Files\nodejs
C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm

NPM Packages

C:\{USER}\AppData\Roaming\npm

Allure Commandline

https://ngoanh2n.github.io/blog/env/allure-commandline

🔲 Installation

npm install --global allure-commandline

🔲 Validation

allure --version

ℹ️ Location

C:\Users\{USER}\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\allure-commandline

GitHub Desktop

https://ngoanh2n.github.io/blog/env/github-desktop

🔲 Installation

🔘 Chocolatey

choco install github-desktop

Open Command Prompt with administrator privileges

🔘 Setup Wizard

  1. Visit https://desktop.github.com
  2. Click Download for Windows
  3. Open GitHubDesktopSetup-xxx.exe in Downloads
  4. Do installation procedures of Setup Wizard

Advance

Android Studio

IDE

https://ngoanh2n.github.io/blog/env/android-studio#ide-windows

✅ Installation

🔘 Chocolatey

choco install androidstudio

Open Command Prompt with administrator privileges

🔘 Setup Wizard

  1. Visit https://developer.android.com/studio
  2. Click Download Android Studio Xxx
  3. Check I have read and agree with the above terms and conditions
  4. Click Download Android Studio Xxx | xxxx.x.x for Windows
  5. Open android-studio-xxx.x.x-windows.exe in Downloads
  6. Do installation procedures of Setup Wizard

SDK

https://ngoanh2n.github.io/blog/env/android-studio#sdk

✅ Installation

🔘 Setup Wizard

When opening for the first time after installed Android Studio.

  1. Open Android Studio
  2. Welcome > Next
  3. Install Type > Next
  4. Verify Settings > Next
  5. License Agreement > Accept licenses > Finish
  6. Downloading Components > Finish

🔘 Download

When missing Android SDK Components. That means, you have NOT installed environment yet as above.

✅ SDK Manager

  1. Open Android Studio
  2. Open Settings
    Navigation route: More Actions > SDK Manager

✅ Settings

✅ SDK Platforms

☑ Show Package Details
☑ Android XX.X
    ☑ Android SDK Platform XX
    ☑ Sources for Android XX

✅ SDK Tools

☑ Show Package Details
☑ Android SDK Build-Tools XX
    ☑ XX.0.0
☑ Android Emulator
☑ Android SDK Platform-Tools

Emulator

https://ngoanh2n.github.io/blog/env/android-studio#sdk

✅ Creating

✅ Virtual Device Manager

  1. Open Android Studio
  2. Open Device Manager
    Navigation route: More Actions > Virtual Device Manager

✅ Virtual Device Configuration

  1. Create Virtual Device
  2. Select Device > Next
  3. Download System Image: Click Download icon
  4. Agree License: Accept > Next
  5. Complete Requested Actions: Finish
  6. Select System Image > Next
  7. Verify Configuration > Finish
  8. Verify Virtual Devices

Android Home

https://ngoanh2n.github.io/blog/env/android-studio#android-home-windows

✅ Setting

By default, SDK location is C:\Users\{USER}\AppData\Local\sdk.
The environment variables that need to be set in the following:

  • ANDROID_HOME
  • Tools:
    • Platform Tools: adb
    • Build Tools: apksigner
    • Command-Line Tools: avdmanager, sdkmanager, apkanalyzer
    • Emulator: emulator, mksdcard
setx /m ANDROID_HOME "C:\Users\{USER}\AppData\Local\sdk" & refreshenv
setx /m PATH "%PATH%;%ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools" & refreshenv
setx /m PATH "%PATH%;%ANDROID_HOME%\build-tools\{API_LEVEL}" & refreshenv
setx /m PATH "%PATH%;%ANDROID_HOME%\cmdline-tools\{CMD_TOOLS_VERSION}\bin" & refreshenv
setx /m PATH "%PATH%;%ANDROID_HOME%\emulator" & refreshenv

☑ Open Command Prompt with administrator privileges
☑ Replace {USER} by your current username
☑ Replace {API_LEVEL} (E.g. 34.0.0)
☑ Replace {CMD_TOOLS_VERSION} (E.g. 13.0)

🔲 Validation

echo %ANDROID_HOME%
adb --version

Appium

Server

https://ngoanh2n.github.io/blog/env/appium#server

✅ Installation

npm install --global appium

🔲 Validation

appium --version

ℹ️ Location

C:\Users\{USER}\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appium

Driver

https://ngoanh2n.github.io/blog/env/appium#driver-windows

✅ Installation

Suppose I want to setup environment on Windows machine for testing Android app and Windows app.

  1. Android app 
    appium driver install uiautomator2
  2. Windows app 
    appium driver install --source=npm appium-windows-driver

Or refer to the Appium Ecosystem’s Drivers for installing appropriate drivers to your testing environment.

🔲 Validation

appium driver list --installed

🔲 Doctor

appium driver doctor uiautomator2
appium driver doctor windows

ℹ️ Location

C:\Users\{USER}\.appium\node_modules\appium-uiautomator2-driver
C:\Users\{USER}\.appium\node_modules\appium-windows-driver

Plugin

https://ngoanh2n.github.io/blog/env/appium#plugin

🔲 Installation

🔲 Images

Plugin for image comparison and finding elements by image.

appium plugin install images

Usage

The plugin must be explicitly activated when launching the Appium server.

appium --use-plugins=images

🔲 Validation

appium plugin list --installed

ℹ️ Location

C:\Users\{USER}\.appium\node_modules\@appium\images-plugin

Inspector

https://ngoanh2n.github.io/blog/env/appium#inspector

✅ Installation

Appium Inspector is released in two formats:

🔘 Desktop application

  1. Visit https://github.com/appium/appium-inspector/releases
  2. Click Appium-Inspector-windows-xxxx.x.x-xxx.exe
  3. Open Appium-Inspector-windows-xxxx.x.x-xxx.exe in Downloads
  4. Do installation procedures of Setup Wizard

🔘 Web application

Appium Inspector is hosted by Appium Pro. You can inspect your app on this site directly at https://inspector.appiumpro.com.