iPhone emulator for Windows that allows installati

Question

In my work I need to perform some tests on iOS iPhone, and for that I need an emulator for the iPhone.

The problem is that this emulator should allow the installation of new applications, but among those who have researched (e.g MobiOne), there is this installation option.

Anyone know of a program with such functionality?

Thanks!

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EDIT

I forgot to mention that I'm using Windows for this task, and I have an application that a client must be installed on this emulator.

Then these constraints are: An emulator that works on Windows and allows the installation of this application.

Answer 1

An iPhone emulator/simulator is part of the iOS SDK. Note that it does not support simulating the built-in hardware sensors such as GPS, the Accelerometer, Gyro, Camera etc.

See the official docs. You can download it from the DevCenter.

Answer 2

An iPhone emulator comes with Delphi XE5 that currently is able to compile native iOS application without XCode.

It seems that Delphi XE5 use a ARM toolchain for create cross binary executables for iOS.

See the iPhone emulator at work in the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afvai7q2Uqk

Answer 3

There is no iOS simulator for Windows. Furthermore, even on the actual iOS Simulator you cannot install third-party applications to test, because the Simulator runs a different architecture than actual iOS devices do (ARM).

Answer 4

There exists no iOS device emulator that runs on Windows, or on anything else (outside of maybe Apple R&D). The iOS Simulator only runs on Intel Macs running OS X 10.6.x (or newer), as the simulation environment pretty much requires an entire Mac OS X installation to run. And the iOS Simulator only runs apps compiled for x86 anyway, not ARM apps.

The only way to test an App store app for an iPhone is on actual Apple iOS hardware.