Selendroid vs Appinum

Selendroid

• Selendroid is a test automation framework which drivers off the UI of Android native and hybrid applications and the mobile web.
• Tests are written using the WebDriver client API.
• Selendroid can be used on emulators and real devices and can be integrated as a node the Selenium Grid for scaling and parallel testing.

Appinum

• Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native and hybrid mobile apps.
• It drives IOS and Android apps using Selenium WebDriver.
• Appium does not require including SDK or recompiling your application.

Selendroid vs Appium

Factors	Selendroid	Appium
Supported Platforms	Android Only	IOS, Android, FirefoxOS(Dev Staging)
Mobile Apps Support	Native, Hybrid & Mobile Web	Native, Hybrid, Mobile Web & Web
User Agent Testing	X	O
Cross Platform	X	O
Emulator	O	O
Real Device	O	O
Cloud Based Testing	O	O
Selenium Grid Implementation	O	O
System Requirment	Selendroid is tested to run on Mac, Linux and Windows/ Java sdk(minium 1.6) is installed and JAVA_HOME is configured. Latest Android-SDK is installed and ANDROID_HOME is set.	IOS Mac OS X 10.7+ XCode 4.5+w/ Command Line Tools Android Mac OS X 10.7+ or Windows 7+ or Linux Android SDK >= 16(SDK < 16 in Selendroid mode)