Advantages of Appium?

1. It is an open-source platform so users can contribute to it easily.
2. It will allow you to write tests that are against mobile platforms.
3. It will allow user can use any kind of test framework or language to write and run the test suites.
4. It supports JSON wire protocol. 
5. It provides cross-platform to automate the Native App, Hybrid App and Web App. 
6. It does not require re-execution of the Application.
7. It also supports automation test execution on real devices, cloud platforms and Emulator and Simulator.
8. It does not have any dependency on mobile devices.
9. It can be easily integrated with the Selenium framework.
10. It supports cloud platforms like Browser Stack, Lambda Test, etc.