The Appium Desktop Application is a combination of the Appium server itself and the Element inspector, which is designed to help you discover all the visible elements of your mobile application while developing your test scripts. NOTE: The Appium Inspection tool does not support finding the locators on Web Browser(Chrome) as it is specifically designed to fetch the attributes for Native Mobile Application only. It works with both real devices or simulators(iOS) or emulators(Android). Appium inspection is a standard procedure to identify the UI elements of a mobile app uniquely. It is the process by which you can locate or find elements in your mobile application (native only). Appium inspection is known by many names such as Element Extraction, UI Element Identification, Locator Finding, etc.

And this is where the Appium Inspector comes into play.

However, if you haven’t already realized (you soon will!), finding these unique elements can sometimes be painful. As you learned in the previous chapter, In order to perform automation it’s necessary to locate the unique selectors for:

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