Appium plugin support on BrowserStack

Use official Appium plugins like wait, gestures, and images on BrowserStack to extend Appium’s functionality and improve test reliability across platforms.

BrowserStack App Automate provides official support for key Appium plugins, enabling you to extend core Appium functionality for more powerful and reliable tests. This allows for greater parity between local and cloud execution environments.

Configuration

To use Appium plugins in your BrowserStack tests, you must specify them in your BrowserStack capabilities:

1. Set the Appium version to 2.15.0 or higher.
2. Add the appiumPlugins capability, listing the required plugins in an array.

Example: To use a single plugin:

{
  "appium:version": "2.15.0",
  "appiumPlugins": ["wait"]
}

Example: To use multiple plugins:

{
  "appium:version": "2.15.0",
  "appiumPlugins": ["wait", "gestures"]
}

Supported plugins

BrowserStack’s implementation uses the native plugin functionality without any custom modifications.

The following plugins are supported on BrowserStack:

Scope of support

• Native functionality: BrowserStack supports the native, unmodified Appium plugins without custom patches.
• Plugin issues: Please report bugs inherent to a plugin to its official source repository.
• Existing plugins: This does not impact existing integrations, such as the images plugin.