title: Xamarin Test Cloud with Appium
body: <p>Had anyone used Xamarin Test cloud with Appium and tests written in Java and cucumber?
  Does it work well?</p>
  
  <p>The reason I'm asking is that we've just started our new mobile app and we decided ti Calabash with Ruby for our test framework running on Xamarin Test Cloudwhen we realised we have a bunch of existing java libraries we would like to reuse for our tests. Calabash doesn't support Java so we have 2 choices:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>We use Appium on the Xamarin Cloud</li>
  <li>We try using Jruby (even though I am not sure it would work with Calabash)</li>
  <li>The only other option left is moving away from Xamarin and using AWS Device Farm instead which supports Appium well for sure. </li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><strong>Update on August 2016</strong>:</p>
  
  <p>we got in touch with Xamarin Cloud and they told us they are about to release support for appium with Java</p>