I am starting a React Native app and I work on Windows (I do not have any ios devices). How do I know how does my app look and work on iOS devices? Is it even possible to run some kind of simulator in windows that will allow me to render my RN app in an iphone? I have android studio and an android phone so android is covered but I wanted to know how I can do the same for iphones. Thanks
Running IOS simulator is only possible on macOS.
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I only have an iPad, but I'm working on an iPhone site and I need to test for its dimensions. Anyone know an app made for this?
If you do not have a Mac, you could download a iPhone app which has a browser in built.
Try installing Dolphin iPhone App on the iPad
Or on a Mac, you may test it on the iPhone Simulator.
Open iOS simulator,
Select iPhone in Hardware > Device
Open Safari on the simulator and type in your URL.
The iOS development tools, incl. Xcode, Interface Builder etc. have an iOS device simulator. You can download these tools from Apple if you're a registered (free) Apple developer.
(These run only on Mac OS X)
Would an online simulator do?
http://iphone4simulator.com/ or http://transmog.net maybe?
Say I want to develop applications for iPhone, but I only have a phone with Windows Mobile and for whatever reason I cannot switch to iPhone or buy a new phone.
Is there any iPhone emulator for Windows Mobile that would allow me to run apps on Windows Mobile 6? I have HTC HD2.
P.S. I'm not interested in emulators for any other platform.
No there no is none, since the CocoaTouch platform is is not opensourced you can't really emulate the platform.
Nor is it possible to emulate iOS on your device, since iOS will require some specific hardware.
You will also need a Mac to develop app since Xcode will only run on OSX.
No. You can't do it without an iPhone and obviously a developer account in order to provision your device.
In your question, you should be asking something like" iOS emulator for windows", which is no.
Understand more about SDKs and emulators, you cannot emulate iOS on a actual WM device but a simulator in a computer; this is not a platform problem, it's a understanding problem, you can still code apps without iPhone and publish it, it's just skipping a step.
If you are on Mac OSX, your good to go, grab the SDK and use the emulator bundled with it
BTW, even if you do get a iphone, you still need a computer with OSX and xcode installed to start coding
I have to convert an iPhone app which is published at the AppStore. However, I do not have iPhone.
Is there any way to test the functionality of this app without a real phone? Would the emulator be of any help? Or maybe some web application?
If you don't have the source code for the app, you can't run it without an iPhone or iPod touch.
The iPhone Simulator (included with the SDK) won't be of any help, because it only runs apps that are compiled for Intel (your Mac). It's not an emulator and cannot run apps that are compiled for actual devices (ARM processors). Without the source code, you can't recompile the app.
iOS Simulator is NOT an emulator. It's a simulator. It doesn't emulate iOS hardware, it is running your app compiled as 64bit Intel app for Mac and displays it inside the iPhone-like window that looks and feels like iPhone, but doesn't have all features and some things don't work the same way.
For example, iOS has a case-sensitive file system, Mac doesn't, so iOS Simulator doesn't either. Also, there's no camera, sms, compass, accelerometer, magnetometer, or any other iPhone-specific feature.
So, yes, you can test some apps using iOS Simulator, but no, you shouldn't test them only using iOS Simulator.
You can of course test the app just with the simulator. However, the simulator lacks some capabilities like accelerometer data, so if you plan on using anything like this, you should consider getting at least the cheapest iPod Touch for testing.
If you do any operations that use lots of rescources (memory, processing power) you need to consider that the iPhone is not as fast as your Mac either.
I'm having the rather frustrating problem of a website problem on iphone 3 that doesn't appear on iphone 4. I can't get my hands on an actual device. I'm running windows. Is there any way of simulating safari on iphone 3?
the only way to emulate the iOS browser is with the iOS Simulator which is part of the iOS SDK, however this requires a Mac to run.
After installing xcode ios SDK I can now run iPhone Simulator. Now is it possible to install and run third party free iPhone apps such as Paper Glider just as you would on real iPhone and how to do that?
Nope, you cannot do that. The apps in the App Store are compiled for ARM; the simulator is for Intel CPUs. Oh, and also, note that it's a simulator, not an emulator.
Sorry to disappoint!