Now a days mobile is playing an important role to day to day life. The concept of web page automation already old .Now time for mobile application automation.We can automate native apps , Hybrid apps & Web apps.
Appium is “cross-platform”: it allows you to write tests against multiple platforms (iOS, Android), using the same API. This enables code reuse between iOS and Android test suites.
You shouldn’t be locked into a specific language or framework to write and run your tests.
You shouldn’t have to recompile your app or modify it in any way in order to automate it.
As we know Appium is an open source for mobile automation.We can use for both Android and iOS mobile automation.