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Henry F
Henry F

Reputation: 4980

Programmatically dismissing simulator

I know that Xcode requires the simulator to launch while running a unit test. During my CI builds, I run unit tests. Sometimes the simulator hangs up the tests, and the tests complete once I dismiss the simulator.

Is there a way to test: 1. If we are in "test mode" in the app delegate 2. If we can programatically dismiss the simulator, either as soon as it appears or after x amount of time.

I wrote an AppleScript that will quit the simulator... I suppose I could launch it from Xcode. Does anyone know how to launch a script in a method?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 227

Answers (2)

Hashmat Khalil
Hashmat Khalil

Reputation: 1816

iOS simulator is a mac app and cannot be dismissed from an iOS app.

either you do it with apple script or you can use a command in your build script to do that.

sudo killall "iOS Simulator"

edit: to clarify further, the script cannot be run from iOS app either. you have to call it from your build script.

Upvotes: 1

Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia
Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia

Reputation: 23623

Please file a bug report at http://bugreport.apple.com with information about what is causing the failure you are trying to workaround. Please take a sysdiagnose at the time and include ~/Library/Logs/CoreSimulator/*.log

As for programmatically running an AppleScript, you can do:

NSString *scriptSource = @"tell application ..."
NSAppleScript *script = [[[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource:scriptSource] autorelease];
NSError *error = nil;

[script executeAndReturnError:&error];

But you cannot use this from an app running within the iOS Simulator because it is isolated from the host.

Upvotes: 1

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