For a little project I´m trying to simulate locations on my iPhone/iPad with the existing Maps - App. With XCode on Mac, you can simulate locations with the help of a GPX-file. But is this also possible without Xcode? Can the GPX-file be saved on the iPhone and then started from there? A second option would be to create a new map using MapKit. But I actually want to use the internal Maps app.
Many Thanks!
No, unfortunatelly this is not possible. There is no way how you can save GPX-file at real device without Xcode simulator at this point.
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Getting started with ARKit development. Imagine that testing an app in development between builds requires imaging an environment to expose the app to a scene and that having to physically hold and/or move camera to capture live scene will be extremely cumbersome each time.
Can an app be tested with recorded video in order to avoid having to capture a realtime scene each time an app has to be tested? If so, how to do so?
Unfortunately, there is no other way to test ARKit apps except running them on your device. I agree, it is a cumbersome process, but for now thats all we have. Hopefully, in the future, Apple will make some sort of AR simulator so that we can test our apps in a faster and easier way.
Yes you can record videos using Reality Composer, then airdrop them to your mac, add them to your Xcode project, edit the scheme to enable ARKit "Replay data" (it may only appear when a device is connected), then select your video in the drop-down list
Edit : screenshot made using Xcode 12.5.1
I'd like to know whether it's possible to simulate locations in my app when testing it on a real iPhone connected to xcode(instead of the simulator) ?
It seems that it was possible via the Instruments->Automator in other versions of Xcode but this service has been removed from Xcode 8. Most probably location simulation in a real device is possible via user interface testing, but I've never done it.
I want to programatically simulate multiple locations with a delay so I'm pretty sure just a GPX file won't be enough.
Is there any way to simulate a location on an iOS device without having to run Xcode with gpx files to do so? I'm fluent in swift and objc and would like to make an app simulate a location without running Xcode. The down side is that when you want to simulate a location without being connected to Xcode the app does not continue to simulate the location. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Sometimes I use a quite ugly hack to do that.
When you have your device connected to the Xcode while simulating location, just remove the lighting cable without killing an app directly.
The app will crash but when you relaunch it you will see it shows the same simualated location despite the fact it's no longer connected to the Xcode.
Note that this is not an elegant approach and to make your device location services work properly again, you have to run an app from Xcode on your device and explicitly set Debug/Simulate Location/Don't Simulate Location
I'm looking for a way to see my app contents on the device the app is being ran on using Xamarin iOS. I would like to do this while debugging the app.
On android this can be viewed through DDMS and then Device File Storage so I'm looking for the same or similar process for Xamarin iOS.
I have also researched and found that you can do this using XCode so I'm hoping its possible through Xamarin also.
Device is iPhone/iPad.
The contents of your app will be saved locally on your mac when debugging, But the location is dynamic and abit hard to find. I use the following tool and it makes it very easy to access all the data I need. https://simpholders.com/
i am creating simple application for showing Blackberry map in Blackberry.
i was unable to open BB Map through my app.
so that i try to open inbuilt Map App that is showing following image
i check my MSD setting and my internet is working perfect and i can browse from BB Browser
i am using 9530-Verizon-4.7.0.75
what could be problem??? How can i start BB Map in my Simulator??
The problem has to do with rendering issue in simulator. I've been through this when developing a map based app. Map would not render and would show green field.
This is the official response I got from RIM when contacted with the issue:
Simulator - Blackberry Maps Green Background Issue
Resolution: Advised customer that BlackBerry Maps functionality has
been inconsistent on device simulators. The best method of conducting
this testing would be to test on a physical device.
After trying all possible solutions, I gave up. Note that the issue doesn't occur on all systems. If you have access to any other system, try on it. May be you get lucky.
On the simulator phone go into the wifi settings and select a network to connect to. After that you should be able to use the web browser and map applications without problem.