The ipa is a zip of an app

On Sunday, March 7, 2021 at 10:41:20 AM UTC+2 P5music wrote:

> I read somewhere that in certain cases, the ipa file is a zip file that 
> contains
> also an .app file, so that it can be extracted and tested on a simulator.
> Is it the case for CodenameOne builds too?
> If not, could it be in the immediate future?
> Regards
> Il giorno domenica 7 marzo 2021 alle 03:17:01 UTC+1 Shai Almog ha scritto:
>
>> I don't know if appetize uses an emulator or is like 
>> https://www.perfecto.io/ it doesn't really matter both are semantically 
>> the same. We produce an ipa that would work with perfector etc. and should 
>> work with anything that runs iOS.
>>
>> On Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 10:07:24 AM UTC+2 P5music wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe that page is well crafted as SEO spam, but it seems that some of 
>>> those applications are true emulators.
>>> For example appetize.io, it at least can run XCode bundles .app, and 
>>> maybe it can run any iOS app.
>>> Now I want to further read that article but it would be interesting to 
>>> hear from you about the emulators from a technical perspective, for 
>>> examples if the iOS builds from CodenameOne server can run on any of those 
>>> emulators, or if a bundle could be created also as the build process output 
>>> to take advantage of similar products.
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Il giorno sabato 6 marzo 2021 alle 05:48:42 UTC+1 Shai Almog ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> That link is a SEO spam article that just writes nonsense to get clicks 
>>>> for specific keywords. I'm unfamiliar with most of those things but those 
>>>> I'm familiar with aren't emulators. E.g. the xamarin tool isn't an 
>>>> emulator. They have a tool where you can have a Mac in your office and 
>>>> then 
>>>> effectively debug on it with the simulator and remote screen mirroring. 
>>>> There are a lot of solutions like that out there that even have hosted 
>>>> physical devices in the cloud you can debug/test with. 
>>>> E.g. https://www.perfecto.io/
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, March 5, 2021 at 9:59:22 AM UTC+2 P5music wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> @Shai Almog
>>>>> Sorry the link was wrong both because it led to the italian version 
>>>>> and it is not relevant for what I am asking.
>>>>> Please consider this page (I found other ones in search results in 
>>>>> fact) which talks about iOS emulators on Windows:
>>>>> 14 Best iOS Emulators for Windows (2021 List) (connectivasystems.com) 
>>>>> <https://www.connectivasystems.com/ios-emulator-for-windows/>  
>>>>> @Dave Dyer 
>>>>> I just want to test the functionality of my CodenameOne app on a 
>>>>> reasonably reliable emulator, not performance or debugging or special 
>>>>> features, just cross-platform.
>>>>> For example I could check the mouse events capture in the CEF 
>>>>> BrowserComponent.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have the possibility to test on a real device but via another 
>>>>> tester, I would like to test on other Apple models too, and, finally, 
>>>>> doing 
>>>>> it myself is certainly better.
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Il giorno venerdì 5 marzo 2021 alle 05:11:00 UTC+1 Shai Almog ha 
>>>>> scritto:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not aware of any iOS emulators but things might have changed. If 
>>>>>> you have something in English that might be interesting but only as 
>>>>>> general 
>>>>>> knowledge.
>>>>>> Emulators are useless for day-day development. A device is a must 
>>>>>> have expense for these things. That's true for Android too which does 
>>>>>> have 
>>>>>> an emulator.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Friday, March 5, 2021 at 2:31:50 AM UTC+2 [email protected] 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you're talking about testing, rather than debugging, I don't 
>>>>>>> think emulators can
>>>>>>> possibly substitute for actual hardware.   Ordinary debugging works 
>>>>>>> pretty well
>>>>>>> from the simulator built into eclipse (or netbeans).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> OTOH if you're doing "desperation level" debugging of mysterious 
>>>>>>> crashes, it works
>>>>>>> to compile from the codename1 sources and use the emulator built 
>>>>>>> into xcode 
>>>>>>> or a usb connection to a real device.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 5:12:13 AM UTC-8 P5music wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I searched the internet to understand what can be done with iOS 
>>>>>>>> simulator and I stumbled upon the concept of iOS emulators, that they 
>>>>>>>> exist 
>>>>>>>> as far as I understand, also for Windows.
>>>>>>>> Even an official tool is provided by Apple, it seems:
>>>>>>>> Uso di TestFlight per distribuire app Xamarin.iOS - Xamarin | 
>>>>>>>> Microsoft Docs 
>>>>>>>> <https://docs.microsoft.com/it-it/xamarin/ios/deploy-test/testflight?tabs=windows>
>>>>>>>> I have to deepen my knowledge of these things and whether it's free 
>>>>>>>> stuff or not, 
>>>>>>>> but I would like to know what do you think about that
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> in regard to testing the iOS builds produced by CodenamenOne 
>>>>>>>> servers.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>

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