Android UI automation test with appium

Question

I just working on android UI automation test in few weeks. I tried with robotium in a time and now I want change to appium framework. And my question are:

1. I read that appium is a test tool to test webview application. So how about the other app that is not webview app?
2. Can I run test from appium on genymotion?
3. Any other tool do I need to install with appium(selenium or something)?

Edit When I try to install appium with out sudo I got this error

ERR! Error: EACCES, unlink '/Users//appium/node_modules/.bin/instruments-client.js'

npm ERR! { [Error: EACCES, unlink '/Users//appium/node_modules/.bin/instruments-client.js']

npm ERR! errno: 3,

npm ERR! code: 'EACCES',

npm ERR! path: '/Users//appium/node_modules/.bin/instruments-client.js' }

npm ERR!

npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! System Darwin 13.1.0

npm ERR! command "/usr/local/Cellar/node/0.10.26/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "link" "appium-uiauto"

npm ERR! cwd /Users/yaphatak/appium

npm ERR! node -v v0.10.26

npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.3

npm ERR! path /Users//appium/node_modules/.bin/instruments-client.js

npm ERR! code EACCES

npm ERR! errno 3

npm ERR! stack Error: EACCES, unlink '/Users//appium/node_modules/.bin/instruments-client.js'

npm ERR!

npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:

npm ERR! /Users//appium/npm-debug.log

npm ERR! not ok code 0

Then I try with sudo then run appium I got this error

error: Appium will not work if used or installed with sudo. Please rerun/install as a non-root user. If you had to install Appium using sudo npm install -g appium , the solution is to reinstall Node using a method (Homebrew, for example) that doesn't require sudo to install global npm packages."

Any help?

Answer 1

1- Yes, Appium can test non-webview apps. The first line on the Appium introduction page says:

Appium is an open-source tool you can use to automate mobile native , mobile web , and mobile hybrid applications on iOS and Android platforms.

2- Yes, Appium should work with Genymotion. See here for an example.

3- Your tests will need to reference the Selenium libraries in order to communicate with Appium.