How to Install iOS Simulator and Android Emulator on Mac for testing and debugging your websites and webapps How to Install iOS Simulator and Android Emulator on Mac for testing and debugging your websites and webapps Introduction Mobile first! It became true in the end of 2016 when a mobile web-browsing eventually overtook a desktop one.

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This brings new challenges for web designers and engineers. Besides the adapted for mobile devices user interface, we also should ensure it works perfectly on a great variety of devices, screens, operation systems and web-browser engines. Several years ago, in a 'desktop era' it was enough to install all the web-browsers on the developer's machine and review a website in them. Nowadays we also need mobile browsers which don't exist on desktop machines. Google Chrome web-browser has an emulation mode, however, it basically resizes the viewport and emulates touch events. It works on the same Chrome's engine even if you 'emulate' iPhone.

So it might be enough just to see how a website looks on small screens, but it's never a real emulation. Fortunately, we don't need to build large farms of mobile devices in our offices. The major mobile platform manufacturers, Apple and Google, provide great developer tools which include the real simulators and emulators of the mobile devices with great configuration possibilities. In this blog post I'm going to describe step-by-step how to install and configure iOS simulators and Android emulators. Prerequirements Since iOS developer tools are only available on macOS, this is the main pre-requirement: you need a Mac to test your website in iOS Simulator.

Android developer tools are cross-platform and it's possible to install them on Mac, Windows and Linux. Install iOS Simulator iOS Simulator is a part of Xcode. What is the mac driver for the traktor s4. As a Mac user you can download and install it for free from.

It downloads around 5.5 GB, so the installation takes some time depending on your network connection. After the installation is completed, launch Xcode from the Launchpad, accept license and wait for some additional installations. Finally, you'll see the Xcode welcome window. Since we are not iOS app developers, we don't need to create any projects there.

As web developers all we need is just to run the iOS simulator. Click Xcode in menu bar, Open Developer Tool and Simulator then. You've got the new iPhone X for free! This is a fully-featured simulation of iOS device.

Check Hardware menu for all the capabilities. Adding more versions and devices in iOS Simulator You can change both the version of iOS and the device 'hardware' which is running it. Open Device menu item under Hardware in menu bar. There is a list of currently available operating systems. The submenu of the selected operation system is the device to run. If you need more versions of simulated iOS, return to Xcode, select Preferences.

In the Xcode menu bar item, switch to the Components tab and you'll see a list of all the available iOS versions. Click a small arrow down icon near the simulator name to download the version you need. The simulator images are pretty large, so it will take some time to download and space in your Mac storage. Is the simulator accurate? Can you trust it? Does it simulates the real device?

Once upon a time I debugged a very specific issue. A user reported our webapp crashed the web-browser on just released iPhone 6 Plus.

It worked good on any other device except for this iPhone. We didn't have this device in the team, so the issue was really hard to reproduce and fix. We updated Xcode to get the latest versions of the simulators and finally we reproduced the issue on the simulator.

So yes, I am convinced that it's pretty accurate since it emulates even crashes and iOS bugs. Install Android Emulator As in case with iOS, Android Emulator is a part of Android developer tools. As the first step you need to download Android Studio. Run Android Studio once it's downloaded and installed. It will ask your a few configuration questions and install some additional components. I suggest to select Custom installation type and check Android Virtual Device. Then continue the installation leaving the default settings and wait for downloading of components.

After it's completed, you'll see the Android Studio welcome window. Despite the fact we need the emulator only, it's required to start a new Android project there. I just entered Emulator as a project name, add no activity and left the other settings default. Need to wait a few more downloads and installs and get the Android Studio workspace.

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