Appium 2.0 - State of the Union
summary
Appium 2.0 frames a modular vision: the core server becomes lightweight with session IDs, an appium setup helper and compatibility checks while platform support moves into drivers and plugins; recent work adds streaming logs, camera image injection for emulators, full‑page Safari screenshots and an inspector that exports gestures and suggests conjunctive locators. The project enables WebDriver Bidi (bidirectional websockets) for async events and streaming (video next), ships a local device farm plugin, and launches a paid contributor compensation scheme that is already issuing payments.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:47Introduction
- 6:20Appium 2.0 vision
- 9:11Core server updates
- 14:13Driver updates
- 22:29Plugin innovations
- 27:11Device Farm & plugins
- 31:27WebDriver BiDi explained
- 37:52Future roadmap
- 39:39Contributor program
- 41:06Q&A
- 51:02Closing
