Inspect element is importance when do automation testing. Appium have GUI to help you inspect mobile application elements, but when iOS 10 and xCode 8 has release,i have trouble to inspect element on latest OS version. Then I found a page to give me a solution.

And i create this post to show more details when i tried to use it.

The good point of “App-Inspector”:

• Support both android and iOS platforms.
• Use command line (cli)
• Not depend on appium

1. How to install it?

The first you need installed node. then you install app-inpsec to via npm:

$ npm install app-inspector -g

2. How to use it

 2.1. #For Android

$./node_modules/.bin/app-inspector -u 192.168.59.101:5555

Then your default browser will show inspector window

2.2. For IOS

./node_modules/.bin/app-inspector -u 5AFD2031-128E-4C10-9DB7-4BA0E0F687B7

Then your default browser will show inspector window