Reputation:
iphone Development
How will you test an iPhone application without the iPhone being available?
Upvotes: 1
Views: 147
Answers (3)
Reputation: 1
An iPhone application can be tested (to an extent) using simulators, it is included within iOS SDK. An iPhone application can run on simulators only if you have source code available with you, but cannot run iPhone builds (IPAfiles) directly on simulators.
The simulators have following limitations with reference to testing purposes 1. Accelerometer, 2. Telephony, 3. GPS, 4. Only up to two figure gestures can be simulated, 5. Hardware and memory, as simulators use the MAC hardware and memory etc. So ideally testing on real device is more reliable rather than using simulators.
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 2150
Of course the simulator doesn't really provide true feedback and it is most advised to do most of the testing on a real iPhone or an iPod if you don't own one, you could possibly use some beta testing program and publish your app there, using ad-hoc provisioning and adding UDID's according to requests. You could try "Mechanical Turk".
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