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Deploying an iOS app to a real device

To prepare for your Appium tests to run on a real device, you will need to:

  1. Build your app with specific device-targeted parameters
  2. Use fruitstrap, a 3rd-party tool, to deploy this build to your device

Xcodebuild with parameters:

A newer xcodebuild now allows settings to be specified. Taken from developer.apple.com:

xcodebuild [-project projectname] [-target targetname ...]
             [-configuration configurationname] [-sdk [sdkfullpath | sdkname]]
             [buildaction ...] [setting=value ...] [-userdefault=value ...]

This is a resource to explore the available settings

CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY (Code Signing Identity)
    Description: Identifier. Specifies the name of a code signing identity.
    Example value: iPhone Developer

PROVISIONING_PROFILE is missing from the index of available commands, but may be necessary.

Specify "CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY" & "PROVISIONING_PROFILE" settings in the xcodebuild command:

xcodebuild -sdk <iphoneos> -target <target_name> -configuration <Debug> CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY="iPhone Developer: Mister Smith" PROVISIONING_PROFILE="XXXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXX"

On success, the app will be built to your <app_dir>/build/<configuration>-iphoneos/<app_name>.app

Deploy using Fruitstrap

Go clone a forked version of fruitstrap as the ghughes version is no longer maintained. Success has been confirmed with the unprompted fork, but others are reportedly functional.

Once cloned, run make fruitstrap Now, copy the resulting fruitstrap executable to your app's project or a parent directory.

Execute fruitstrap after a clean build by running (commands available depend on your fork of fruitstrap):

./fruitstrap -d -b <PATH_TO_APP> -i <Device_UDID>

If you are aiming to use continuous integration in this setup, you may find it useful to want to log the output of fruitstrap to both command line and log, like so:

./fruitstrap -d -b <PATH_TO_APP> -i <Device_UDID> 2>&1 | tee fruit.out

Since fruitstrap will need to be killed before the node server can be launched, an option is to scan the output of the fruitstrap launch for some telling sign that the app has completed launching. This may prove useful if you are doing this via a Rakefile and a go_device.sh script:

bundle exec rake ci:fruit_deploy_app | while read line ; do
   echo "$line" | grep "text to identify successful launch"
   if [ $? = 0 ]
   then
   # Actions
       echo "App finished launching: $line"
       sleep 5
       kill -9 `ps -aef | grep fruitstrap | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
   fi
 done

Once fruitstrap is killed, node server can be launched and Appium tests can run!

Next: Running Appium on Real Devices