I made a universal app and I need to test on iPhone and iPad devices. However, I only have an iPad now but not an iPhone. Is there an easy way to use an iPad to simulate an iPhone environment so that I can do testing on iPad (and pretend it is an iPhone)? Thanks in advanced.
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I think the answer is no. However you can use the emulator that comes with the iPhone SDK to do your testing for iPhone devices - just set your Target to iPhone.
pheelicks
2010-05-18 14:54:31
It's called a Simulator, not an Emulator, for a reason.
Mk12
2010-06-02 14:46:48
+1
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You could probably build an iPhone only version of your app and run that on your iPad for testing. Barring that you're probably stuck using the simulator.
Covar
2010-05-18 14:57:44
+1
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I think no. From my experience, you should at least, by borrow/ buy/ hire, have an iphone in latest phase of project like performance testing, because the performance is really different on simulator and on iphone
vodkhang
2010-05-18 15:00:46
It's not just performance. The simulator is good, but not _perfect_. I have seen problems with code that works well in the simulator manifest problems on the device, and they may often be graphical glitches so very visible. Beg or borrow a device (or ad-hoc deploy to a willing friend)
Kevin
2010-05-18 15:11:39
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Or if it doesn't rely on any iPhone only facilities, an iPod Touch would be a cheaper option than buying an iPHone.
JeremyP
2010-05-18 15:18:24
Yeah, I think the IPod Touch and Iphone can be considered similar. I am not sure, but in my company, we have both devices to test:)
vodkhang
2010-05-18 15:20:06
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Set the project to build as iphone only, but install it on your ipad. The only problems would be the processor speed, and the ram.
NSArray
2010-07-23 03:05:04