After the Appium download, run appium-doctor to verify your environment. This utility checks if all dependencies (like ANDROID_HOME or JAVA_HOME ) are correctly configured and provides a report of what needs fixing.

To successfully set up Appium:

This installs the npm package via Homebrew but still requires Node.js.

appium driver list # shows available and installed drivers appium plugin list # plugins like images, device-farm

There are two primary ways to "download" and install the Appium Server.