Appium Architecture for iOS
Ø On iOS, Appium proxies command to a UIAutomation script running in Mac Instruments environment. Ø Apple provides this application called ‘instruments’ which is used to do lot activities like profiling, controlling and building iOS apps but it also has an automation component where we can write some commands in javascript which uses UIAutomation APIs to interact with the App UI. Appium utilizes these same libraries to automate iOS Apps.. Ø In the above figure, we can see the architecture of the Appium in context to the iOS automation. If we talk about a command life-cycle, it goes like, Selenium webdriver picks a command form the code like (Element.click) and sends it in form of JSon via http request to the Appium server. Appium server knows the automation context like the iOS and Android and sends this command to the Instruments...