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1. How to add emulator in cordova mac how to#
2. How to add emulator in cordova mac plus#
3. How to add emulator in cordova mac simulator#

How to add emulator in cordova mac how to#

Check out its github pageto find out how to install it. ios-sim uses the term devicetypeid to indicate the target machine to run your app on. Yes you can, but you’d have to leave the realms of the Cordova CLI and use a npm installable tool called ios-sim.

How to add emulator in cordova mac simulator#

Just copy-paste one of the target names from the list and add it between brackets after the –target parameter and you’re good to go!Ĭan I run a specific iOS version on the iOS simulator as well?

Since there already is an emulate command for the Cordova CLI, all that remains is specifying the target by using the –target parameter. The last step is executing the iOS project and running it on one of the specified simulator targets. The script will generate an overview of the targets that you can use looking something like this: Please note that you need to have created your project and added the iOS target since the script lives in the iOS platform build directory You’d need to run the script in its directory, so when your prompt is in the www directory of your project, the command is as following: To find out what targets are available on your development machine, Cordova has a nice utility script that you can execute. In Cordova CLI a simulator device that you can run your iOS build on is called a target. What emulator images do you have installed? Most commands are equal on a Windows machine but in order to build and run an iOS project you actually need a Mac (just like you need a Windows machine to add and build a Windows platform app). PLEASE NOTE: This post assumes that you’re working on a Mac development machine (since that’s my rig). In this post i’ll show you how you can use the CLI to do just that. Luckily, it’s quick and easy to check what device types are available and to build-n-run your Cordova iOS project on a specific device using the CLI. The multi screen testing aspect is being emphasized even more when you’re working on a hybrid mobile app using HTML based layouts as your GUI with tools like Apache’s Phonegap/Cordova.īuilding the iOS target, opening up XCode and selecting different device types to target and running the instance on them can be a tedious and error prone process.

How to add emulator in cordova mac plus#

With the iOS 6 and 6 Plus adding to the few but various screen dimensions of iOS devices the aspect of testing your layouts and GUI against multiple device types is becoming more important.