How to Start and Stop Appium Server programmatically using Python

I have found the answer for 1:

Use appium & command.

Use & at the end of the command that will run it in background and didn't freeze the terminal.

Please Refer this

Below is what you can do for 2. Start Appium Server programmatically using Python

import os

#starts appium on same terminal window

os.system("appium")

#starts appium on new terminal window 
os.system("start /B start cmd.exe @cmd /k appium")

The way I do it is:

write appium in terminal

or if I want a specific chromedriver version then I do:

appium --chromedriver-executable /path/to/my/chromedriver/chromedriver_2.42

1) Create a shell script called startAppium.sh with this command: appium --debug &

2) Create a shell script called killAppium.sh with this command: kill $(ps -e | grep 'appium' | awk '{print $1}')

3) Use python to run either process to execute the shell scripts: import killProcess killProcess.call(['./killAppium.sh'])

Note: I use the above for Jenkins CI/CD in the groovy file's setup and post blocks with just the commands, i.e: sh "appium --debug &" and sh "kill $(ps -e | grep 'appium' | awk '{print $1}')".