Error Could not connect to server; are you sure it's running? In appium

Question

I am getting this error. How to solve this.

Answer 1

Just tick the below checkbox "Allow Unauthorized Certificates" for appium versions 1.6.*

and make sure you are under "Automatic Server" tab

Answer 2

Go to automatic server option and start session . and give the right path of apk file. it is work for me (appium server 1.7)

Answer 3

After searching and applying lots of solutions finally i did following settings for Successful Android appium app testing on windows machine.

Software:

As of now they have released appium-server and appium-inspector as two seperate softwares. I'm using latest version of repositories.

• Appium server 1.22.0
• Appium Inspector 2021.9.2

Appium Server Settings

Make sure you have the same settings shown in the images below.

Appium Inspector settings

Steps to start appium:

• Start appium server first
• Then Start appium Inspector (make sure you add desired capabilities manually otherwise below error msg will arrive if you pasted Json representation manually)

Failed to create session. An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: You must include a platformName capability.

After adding Representation it will look like below

{
  "platformName": "android",
  "deviceName": "emulator-5554",
  "appPackage": "com.coswarden",
  "appActivity": "ActivityHome"
}

Hope this will solve your error.