System Requirements
The basic requirements for the Appium server are:
- A macOS, Linux, or Windows operating system
- Node.js version in the SemVer range
^14.17.0 || ^16.13.0 || >=18.0.0- LTS is recommended
npmversion>=8(npmis usually bundled with Node.js, but can be upgraded independently)
By itself, Appium is relatively lightweight and doesn't have significant disk space or RAM requirements. It can even be run in resource-constrained environments like Raspberry Pi, so long as Node.js is available.
Driver Requirements¶
Drivers for automating specific platforms will likely have other requirements. Refer to the documentation of the Appium driver(s) for that platform for additional dependencies. It is almost universally the case that Appium drivers for a given platform will require the developer toolchain and SDKs for that platform to be installed.
In order to assist with driver requirements, each (official) driver comes with the Appium Doctor tool, which allows to verify if all requirements have been set up. Learn more about how to use this tool in the Command-Line Usage documentation.