Appium is an open-source tool for automating native, mobile web, and hybrid applications on iOS devices, Android devices, and Windows desktop platforms. It also supports automation tests on physical devices as well as an emulator or simulator both.

Native apps are those kinds of applications that are written using the iOS, Android, or Windows SDKs.

Mobile web apps can be accessed using a mobile browser (Appium supports Safari on iOS devices and Chrome or the built-in ‘Browser’ app on Android devices).

Hybrid apps use a wrapper around a ‘webview’ — a native control that enables interaction with web content.

It offers cross-platform applications testing, i.e., one single API works for Android and iOS platform test scripts.

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