The Appium server and its client libraries
The Appium server is used to interact with different platforms such as iOS and Android. It creates a session to interact with mobile apps, which are not supported on any platform. It is an HTTP server written in Node.js and uses the same concept as the Selenium Server, which identifies the HTTP requests from the client libraries and sends these requests to the appropriate platform. To start the Appium server, users need to download the source or install it directly from npm. Appium also provides the GUI version of the server. You can download it from the official Appium site, http://appium.io. In the next chapter, we will discuss the GUI version in more detail.
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