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Advanced tools
Appium Android Driver
Appium Android Driver is the collection of common primitives used by other Android drivers, like UIA2/Espresso. This driver cannot work as a separate entity.
Development
Install and Compile
npm i
npm run build
npm run lint
Unit Test
npm test
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FAQs
Android UiAutomator and Chrome support for Appium
The npm package appium-android-driver receives a total of 329,965 weekly downloads. As such, appium-android-driver popularity was classified as popular.
We found that appium-android-driver demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 20 Dec 2025
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