System setup for Android

- [Instructor] In order for Appium … to automate Android mobile apps, … we need to make sure our computer is setup … with a couple different Android-related … development requirements. … First and foremost, we'll need the Java Development Kit … or JDK to support compiling … Appium's Android automation code. … You may already have Java installed on your computer, … to check and see, let's open up a terminal … and run a quick command. … I'm going to run a command that will tell me the location … of Java's home directory on my system, if it exists, … so I'm going to type /usr/libexec/java_home. … Note that this command will work on Mac systems, … which I'm running and which is the focus of this course … due to our need to demonstrate iOS testing. … For finding Java's home path on Windows or Linux, … please refer to the Java documentation. … So, you can see that this command returned a path … which I will need later on during Appium setup, … if you don't get this kind of result, … then you need to install Java or use another method …