Warning
Deprecated: appium-idb is no longer actively maintained.
The upstream fb-idb stack is not maintained well, and Appium is moving to homegrown,
properly maintained clients for private Apple APIs (like,
appium-ios-remotexpc).
appium-idb is NodeJS wrapper over iOS Device Bridge (idb) set of utilities made by Facebook. Read https://www.fbidb.io for more details.
- Python 3.6 or newer
- XCode 10 or newer
- idb_companion 1.1.7 or newer
- idb 1.1.7 or newer
Use the following commands to setup idb and its dependencies:
brew tap facebook/fb
brew install idb-companion
pip3.6 install fb-idb
const idb = IDB({
udid: deviceUdid,
});
await idb.connect();
const deviceInfo = await idb.describeDevice();
await idb.disconnect();Check https://github.com/appium/appium-idb/blob/master/lib/idb.js on the list of supported IDB options. udid option is mandatory and can be both Simulator or real device id. It is mandatory to call connect method before invoking idb instance methods (this will trigger idb companion and idb daemon processes if necessary). Calling disconnect will stop the previously started companion processes.
Go through the modules in https://github.com/appium/appium-idb/tree/master/lib/tools to get the full list of supported commands.
npm run watch
npm test
