iPhone Emulator

Background

There are two ways to develop applications for the iPhone. One is to develop a native app using an Apple, and the other is to implement a web application that runs under Safari. When doing the latter, one need to test the application and it is convenient to be able to do so on your PC. For this you need an emulator of Safari for iPhone. Such application can also be useful to make good-looking screenshots and demonstrations and movies.

Recommendations

MobiOne is the best iPhone emulator and Palm Pre emulator on the market today and has just updated to the Milestone 7 version, which includes a new drag-n-drop mobile Web visual designer for mockups, mobile HTML code generation, convenient mobile design templates, updated OSS components, screen capture, multi-touch and gesture support and more.

Mobile visual designer, multi-touch and gesture support for Web apps and hybrid apps, iPhone 3.0, HTML5 geolocation, local storage and application caching, Javascript debugger, code inspector, etc. make this tool a unique solution.

While we do not use the designer at Kerkia and prefer using libraries such as iUI or jqTouch to produce our HTML and Javascript code, this emulator remains our preferred solution for building web applications for smartphones.

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A few other solutions exist, the best one being simply web sites to be used in Safari for Windows. However those solutions do not come even close to MobiOne in terms of emulation of the smartphone behaviours.

Web links

MobiOne

Web site: http://www.genuitec.com/mobile/

Download: http://www.genuitec.com/mobile/


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14. March 2010 by Yann | Comments (3) | Permalink

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Сантехника Grohe United States
Great website...and cool article man...thanx for the great post...keep on posting such articles... Resources like the one you mentioned here will be very useful to me! I will post a link to this page on my blog. I am sure my visitors will find that very useful.
10/5/2010 8:21:00 AM #
Anders Sweden
When developing for the iPhone or iPad, it's sometimes difficult to test your solution. The iPhone Developer mode doesn't give you quite enough.

That's why I developed addTouch. It's a multitouch emulator, that lets you use Firebug or Google Chrome Developer Tools to debug your touch-enabled web app. Give it a try:

http://j.mp/fVFE5C
12/22/2010 6:26:40 AM #
Kerkia United States
addTouch does look like a very nice piece of work! The result is indeed impressive. This being said, it is worth noting that the solution we recommend does allow debugging as well, and has the great advantage of emulating the size and orientation of the device, as well as its location, state, etc., all things we find very important and lacking in environments such as Firebug. We hence would like to recommend addTouch includes also those capabilities, all of them should be doable and the size and orientation should be fairly easy; this would make addTouch definitely worth it! Now subscribing to your blog Smile...
12/27/2010 11:58:21 AM #

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