My Application is not running one the old simulators With Blackberry JRE 5,6. The project runs fine on the new simulators with JRE 7 (model 9900, 9810, 9860). The memory size of the application is more than ~6MB.
I tried Cleaning the application in all such ways. In lower simulators the COD file also gets deployed in the simulator, but it doesn't shown in the downloads folder.
What might be the problem.
You say "~6MB". That is pretty close to the maximum app size on older versions of BBOS. You might need to factor your app into multiple cods, to keep the size of the cod groups smaller.
Which BlackBerry JRE did you develop your app in? Please note that BlackBerry apps are not backward compatible, i.e. an app developed in JRE 7.0 will not work below OS 7 as not all APIs used in JRE 7 will be available in the older operating systems. BlackBerry apps are forward compatible and for an app to function on OS 5, 6 and 7, you should develop the application in JRE 5.
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The idea of using Delphi to develop a mobile app is appealing to us because we can do Android, iOS and Windows without duplicating work. Delphi is also a language that we are familiar with. However after trying to get a simple test app running on an iPad, I do not think it is actually realistic. Here are my observations:
The iPad is running iOS 12.0.1 (and iOS 12.1 is already downloaded and ready to install).
Xcode, which runs on the mac, is used by Delphi for building apps and deploying them to the test target. Each Xcode version supports exactly one iOS SDK version and is the Xcode version plus 2. My old Mac is currently running xcode 8.2.1 so that corresponds to iOS SDK 10.2, which should run on iOS 10.2 and higher.
Delphi Tokyo supports iOS SDK versions from 8.0 up to 11.3 (so Xcode 6 to 9). It will not compile apps using SDK 12. The Xcode version running on the mac fits squarely within this range of versions.
It appears that Xcode is not able to properly support iOS versions that are newer than itself. When trying to run the application it errors out with "unable to location DeviceSupport directory for the connected device. Please check Xcode installation path and run Xcode devices". Under "Devices" the following is displayed for the iPad: "This iPad mini2 is running iOS 12.0.1, which may not be supported by this version of Xcode".
So, it would appear that the latest Xcode version is required to support the iPad running iOS 12.x but that means that Delphi cannot compile for it because it only goes up to SDK 11.3 and not 12. I do not think it is possible or sensible to downgrade the iPad iOS. Also even if we get a Delphi version that works, the next iOS update will require a new Xcode and therefore a new Delphi version that isn't even available. When the new Delphi version is finally available it will already be obsolete since iOS will have already moved on.
Please correct me where I am wrong. Because this cannot surely be the state of things.
I am currently using xcode 5.1 with Mac 10.8.5. But i can not install ios simulator in this xcode? any one tell me how to install ios 5 simulator ?
Man, this really made me angry today when I upgraded from Xcode 5.0 to Xcode 5.1 and discovered that I no longer had a functional iOS 5.1 simulator. There was nothing in the Software Update process that gave me any heads-up whatsoever that this would disable iOS 5.0/5.1 simulators. Bad Apple! Bad!
Anyway, here's the workaround I came up with. It seems pretty clean.
I noticed that in ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode/Downloads there was an old file sitting around called Xcode.SDK.iPhoneSimulator.5.1-5.1.dmg (thank god I never cleared out that cache directory).
I double-clicked this disk image to mount it, and then double-clicked the .pkg file inside that. The package installer then placed the contents into a subdirectory of /Platforms.
I then moved /Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator5.1.sdk into /Applications/Xcode/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs and restarted Xcode.
Bam. Done. Back in business.
Note: Another approach, if you happen to have a thorough Time Machine backup of your full system, as Pandey Laxman pointed out earlier, is simply to restore the contents of /Applications/Xcode/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator5.1.sdk from an older backup. In my case, I wasn't able to do this because my development system is a MacBook Air that I keep backed via Time Machine up onto a permanently-installed 32GB SanDisk Cruzer Fit USB flash drive (as well as two extra Time Machine backups on separate network drives). Anyway, because the backup drive is relatively small, when I first set up Time Machine on this system, I had excluded /Applications from my backup (something I don't recommend doing).
In order to develop for the latest version of iOS, you need the latest iOS SDK, which requires the latest version of XCode, which in turn requires the latest version of OSX (at least as of writing this iOS 8.3 requires XCode 6.3, which requires OSX 10.10 - all the latest and greatest).
I would guess that Apple doesn't want to support iPad 1s and old iPhones anymore running iOS 5. Thus, they've done what they could to discourage developers from supportting them.
I, personal, put a lot of effort into coding to support iOS 5 through 8. I am not in hurry to throw that backwards compatibility away, but obviously developing for the most current version of iOS takes priority.
To get to the point, you can't install or run an iOS 5 simulator on OSX 10.10 Yosemite. I couldn't get an iOS 6 simulator to run either for some reason (even though I was able to install it in XCode 5).
I did, however, find a solution so I could use simulators for iOS 5 through 8 on my machine.
How? Setup a dual boot into an older os and install some software which can no longer be downloaded, but I tracked down.
I've posted the steps and all the software here. Nothing is difficult about any of this, but it will take many hour of downloading and running installations, ect. Reserve a day to do this while working another machine most of the time.
Create a partition on your hard drive from which you can run OSX Lion. I found 32 GB was large enough.
You may also want to create an additional partition at the same time rather than use a flash drive in step 2. I also made it 32 GB, but it could probably be a lot smaller (8? maybe even 4 gig?).
Here's a link to help with that:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/06/how-to-create-a-test-partition-for-the-os-x-yosemite-beta/
Create a bootable installer drive for Lion. You can use a flash drive, or the extra partition suggested in step 1 (that's what I did when the only flash I had on me was acting up).
Here's the os:
OSX 10.7.2 Lion
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwmycZWygE8EUlhCYWlOWjlCcHM/view?usp=sharing
Here's directions for doing this:
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/11807/os-x-lion-convert-os-x-lion-dmg-installer-to-a-bootable-usb-thumbdrive-install-without-an-optical-drive/
Run the installer. Restart the machine whiling holding down the "option" key on the keyboard to select your boot device.
Once you have Lion up and running, you need to upgrade it to 10.7.5 (sorry I didn't have that to post to begin with).
Simply use the basic software update mechanism to do this.
Install XCode 4.6. Here's the software:
XCode 4.6.3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwmycZWygE8ETnlFQ1BSYVV1ZUE/view?usp=sharing
Normally, you ought to be able to install an iOS 5 simulator via XCode, but Apple has blocked this.
You can however, install it manually as others have described in this thread for the various sdks (as long as you already have the software!)
Here is the software (since we don't have just happen to be lucky enough to have it previously installed):
Sorry, I don't have 5.1, only 5.0
iOS 5.0 Simulator
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwmycZWygE8ETndPOFJyUVg0b3M/view?usp=sharing
Install the command line tools if necessary. Again, XCode ought to allow you to do this, but it will fail when you try the normal way. Go ahead and give it a try.
Here's a dmg instead which you can install yourself that is compatible with this setup:
Command Line Tools (XCode 4.6 / OSX 10.7)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwmycZWygE8EWm9QTW5HYV9PUnM/view?usp=sharing
Get your project to build in this new environment. There are permission issues and such when you try to cross over to your primary drive.
I found the easiest way to get everything working was to copy whatever I needed to the Lion drive and make sure all the relative paths were identical.
I also had to play a bit with the code because what compiled for the 7 and 8 sdks didn't work perfectly with this one. That's on you.
I believe the iOS 6 simulator will already be installed for you, but otherwise you should be able to download that still via XCode if needed.
Enjoy having all these simulators now!
you need to copy the simulator SDK to Xcode 5.1.
First copy the simulator SDKs from your previous installed Xcode.
then paste it in
Xcode 5.1 "Show Package Contents->Contents->Developer->Platforms->iPhoneSimulator.Platforms
->Developer->SDKs folder
There restart the Xcode 5.1.
Unfrotunately ,Xcode 5.1 in OS X 10.9 or 10.8.5 the iOS 5 simulator is no longer available.
Better to use some older versions like 4.6 for use iOS 5 simulator
using of Xcode 5 under OS X v10.8 then if you go to Preferences -> Downloads you should see the 5.0 and 5.1 simulators available under Components. You can download and install directly from there.
If you're using Xcode 5 under OS X v10.9 then the iOS 5 simulator is
no longer available.
xCode 5.02 up to available iOS 58 simulator but after updated the xcode through 5.1 the available simulator start from iOS 6
iOS Simulator
Performance issues can arise when running apps within the iOS Simulator on OS X Mavericks with a simulated OS version of iOS 6.1 or earlier.
A workaround is to disable timer coalescing while using the iOS 6.1 or earlier simulator by executing the following command in a Terminal window:
sudo sysctl -w kern.timer.coalescing_enabled=0 (15501929)
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/releasenotes/DeveloperTools/RN-Xcode/xc5_release_notes/xc5_release_notes.html
I have built a Blackberry for simulator 9900 (BlackBerry 7 OS), and want to run it on BlackBerry device which have BlackBerry 6 OS.
So if any body have idea how to do it, please provide the solution.
Running applications compiled for a later version of the OS on an earlier version is not supported. Typically this will fail when you attempt to run it because there are API's missing, but even if the application only uses APIs that are available in both levels, it is not supported.
So your only option is the install the OS 6 level of the JRE in your Eclipse, change the project to use that for compilation and build a version using the OS 6 JRE. This build will then run on both OS 6 and OS 7.
If you have used OS 7 level only APIs and these are essential to your app so you wish to retain them in the OS 7 version (obviously you can't use them in OS 6), then you will need to find some way to build the OS 7 and OS 6 versions separately, and not use the OS 7 APIs in your OS 6 build. The easiest approach that I am aware of is to use the pre-processor. But other people have developed other approaches depending on how they have automated the build.
You might be asking a different question, which is, how do you actually target a different Simulator? To do this, look at your Run or Debug configuration (under the Run menu item) and select the Simulator tab, That will enable you to choose another Simulator. The OS 6 JRE comes with some Simulators and you can download more:
http://us.blackberry.com/sites/developers/resources/simulators.html
Or you might be asking how to put the application on a device in general? There are a number of options to do this, as explained on this page:
http://developer.blackberry.com/bbos/java/documentation/package_distribute_apps_2006593_11.html
I'm trying to write an app for my own use on my iPhone (iOS 6.0). Unfortunately I'm also traveling with my OSX 10.5 laptop with Xcode 3.1.4 loaded. Is there any way to run an app built with this xcode on my iPhone? I don't need any feature from a recent iOS and there are plenty of old apps that run just fine and were probably developed with old Xcode versions, but I always get an amber button indicating the iPhone iOS isn't supported when I hit build and run.
The oldest version of xcode that can develop for iOS 6 is xcode 4.5, and for running xcode 4.5 you need to have MAC OS 10.7.4 or later version
Sorry man, You can't.
You need Xcode4 and Lion for iOS6 development.
EDIT:
Now(2014 AD) Apple doesn't allow any app developed using below Xcode 5, so you need to have Xcode 5.
No. To develop for a modern iPhone, you need an Intel mac, and I doubt that a laptop with 10.5 is an Intel Mac (or that 10.5 even supports x86). Also, Xcode versions are correlated to API versions, if you haven't noticed, so even if possible, you'd probably only be able to use the 3.0 APIs, which are now not even usable because of the multitasking introduced in 4.0.
Short answer: No.
My apologies if this question has been asked before. I can see there are a lot of questions that appear similar, however it seems they are mainly asking to do the reverse of what I am asking here.
I took a break from developing for a few months, because I had sold my macBook, and in the meantime upgraded my iPhone 4 to IOS 5.1 (over wifi)
Before selling the macbook, I made a carbon copy of my drive and made sure it could be booted and used to maintain things (on a borrowed mac).
Anyway I am now back on line with a second hand macbook classic, which came with a fresh Lion install, and whilst the workstation backup drive I made boots up fine, I discovered to my dismay that Xcode 4.2 no longer lets me build to my iPhone, so I had to go ahead and install XCode 4.3.3 Under Lion. 6GB of update downloads and installs later, all is well, however I am now left with a puzzling question.
If I make a new app, it appears to be an IOS 5.1 app, and the only simulator available is IOS 5.1 iPhone and IOS 5.1 iPad. and of course my iPhone device.
so... if I go ahead and submit this app to the app store, (ensuring I don't use any 5.1 specific features), does this mean users with versions of IOS lower than 5.x can still download and deploy the app? I can't test it as there are no simulators, and I only have access to 5.1 installed devices. I tried downloading additional simulators, but the default new project seems to preclude them from the menu system.
What is the best way to make one (1) app that everybody (including 5.x users) can download?
I would have stayed with Xcode 4.2 but this would mean having to trash my iPhone to do device testing.
Alternatively is there some way of going back to my original workstation (4.2) and configure it to allow me to do device testing on my 5.1 device?
In Xcode, select the project file in the project navigator, and then the target. In the first section of the "Summary" tab you have "iOS Application Target". There you can choose earlier iOS versions.
That's all.
In xcode go to preferences command + "," navigate to downloads. choose components tab, and you will find the ios simulators, download the one you wish from there