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Select real devices on BrowserStack for Appium testing

Select real devices for Appium testing your app on BrowserStack App Automate. Test on 3000+ devices on our real device cloud.

You can run your Appium tests on a wide range of real iOS and Android devices on BrowserStack. These are not simulators or emulators but physical devices hosted in our data centers.

To select a device to test on, use the device capability in your Appium test scripts. You can also select a particular OS version for the specified device by setting an os_version capability, and specify a set of devices for parallel testing. An incorrect device name is a common cause of session start failures.

To view the list of supported Android and iOS devices and OS versions, refer to the list of supported devices.

If you are using BrowserStack SDK, you can set the following capabilities in the browserstack.yml file:

Capability Description Values
deviceName Specify the device to test on. This is a required capability. Use the OS / Device selector
platformName Specify the OS. ios, android
platformVersion Specify the OS version of the device. Use the OS / Device selector

Example:

browserstack.yml
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