I'm developing a cross-platform mobile app using Cordova, focussing mainly on iOS in the development stage.
For my development process it would be ideal if I could start my Cordova app directly from the command line and have it load into a specified emulator. I can do this by running the following from the project root directory:
$cordova run --debug --emulator iOS
This works fine, and results in an iOS-simulator running my app in a simulated iPhone 4 Retina with iOS 7.0.3
Besides this simulated device, I would also like to test on (for instance) an iPad. I have these emulation images installed, and I can start my app in them manually in Xcode. Also, the command list-emulator-images
(located in project_dir/platforms/ios/cordova/lib
) gives the following output:
"iPhone Retina (3.5-inch)"
"iPhone Retina (4-inch)"
"iPhone Retina (4-inch 64-bit)"
"iPhone"
"iPad"
"iPad Retina"
However, the thing is: I can't seem to figure out how to start the emulator in anything other than the default (which appears to be the iPhone Retina (4-inch)
emulation image). The relevant output of cordova help
gives the following information:
run [--debug|--release]
[--device|--emulator|--target=FOO]
[PLATFORM] ............................ deploys app on specified platform devices / emulators
I've tried things like the following:
cordova run --debug --emulator=iPad iOS
And many variations thereof, but no luck. Every time it starts in the same emulator.
The documentation for the command-line tool doesn't offer any information in this regard, and an extensive Google-search also failed to turn up anything. Am I missing something trivial? Or am I trying to do something weird? I really hope someone here has experience with this, and can provide some answers.
Thanks very much in advance!
edit: forgot to mention explicitly; I'm doing all this on a Mac. As mentioned earlier, running the app in different emulators/simulators in Xcode works fine.
Best Answer
To find out what are the simulator images available you can use to list them
Then use one of the simulator names in the --target parameter:
Important Quit the simulator before launching a different target simulator (On Menu bar select
Simulator->Quit
)Take into account that you may need to quit the iOS simulator via menu to switch from 3.5 to 4 inch iPhone.
dynamic list is available in
platforms/ios/cordova/lib/list-emulator-images