appium-doctor can't find bundletool when installed with brew on macOS

Question

I'm running appium-doctor (2.0.25) on macOS (13.5.2) and getting a warning:

WARN AppiumDoctor ✖ bundletool.jar cannot be found

However, I already installed bundletool via brew:

brew install bundletool

And the installation worked because I can use the bundletool command in Terminal.

which bundletool returns /opt/homebrew/bin/bundletool. So how do I get appium-doctor) to recognize that I have bundletool installed?

Answer 1

The solution of creating a symbolic link

ln -s /opt/homebrew/bin/bundletool /opt/homebrew/bin/bundletool.jar

aims to resolve the Appium-Doctor warning by making bundletool.jar seemingly available. However, this might not be effective if Appium-Doctor requires the actual Java archive file since the Homebrew installation of bundletool might not be a JAR file. A more reliable approach would be to download the bundletool.jar directly from its official source and place it in a directory where Appium-Doctor can find it, ensuring full compatibility with its requirements.