Cannot instantiate the type AppiumDriver
You don't need to downgrade or anything. There is a design change in the Java Client version 2.0.0 as they mention on their site:
AppiumDriver is now an abstract class, use IOSDriver and AndroidDriver which both extend it.
So, just change your driver line to be:
dr = new AndroidDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"),capabilities);Hope that helps...
This error can be fixed by downgrading the Appium Client(see step 1 in my question) from latest to java-client-1.5.0. You can keep rest of the jars to latest.
Downgraded version of Appium Client can be downloaded from here http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.appium/java-client/1.5.0