The Appium drivers

- [Narrator] Apart from the fact … that Appium has a client-server architecture, … the most important thing to know … about how Appium is designed is that it is built … around a number of platform-specific drivers. … A driver is a code module … that translates the WebDriver protocol … into actual automation behaviors for a particular platform. … Through the inclusion of a variety of different drivers, … Appium supports automation across a wide variety … of platforms, though of course, … the most popular platforms are iOS and Android. … The way it works is that your test script makes calls … to a single Appium server. … Based on the type of platform you want to automate, … for example, iOS, Appium will choose an appropriate driver … to handle commands for your test. … This means that each driver might be quite different … from other drivers. … The Android drivers for example, … must be written in Java in order to interface … with the Android testing tools. … The iOS XCUITestDriver, on the other hand, …