Running AIR apps in iOS Simulator - How To

[Erik Thomas <er...@icloud.com>]

Have you ever tried to set up and use the XCode iOS Simulator to test your app, and to see if the DPI mapping makes your app look good on all of them? If you haven't yet tackled it, this might be of some help to you (if you develop on MacOS). You can create other scripts that call this one in a loop with all devices if you want to launch them all to see how your app lays out on each one.

The reason I created this script is because I use IntelliJ IDEA and it doesn't support selecting a target simulator device when using iOS Simulator, and the only workaround is to set an environment variable with the device name you want in a shell and launching the IntelliJ app from the shell, i.e., $ open -a "IntelliJ....app" which is very inconvenient. Here is my feature request for this to be added to IntelliJ IDEA <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-209027>.

Requirements:

MacOS
Flex SDK 4.16.1
AIR SDK 32 (in this example we point to the iOS SDK 12.1 version of the simulator) 

To use an older SDK, change the XCODE_SIM_SDK assignment from .../iPhoneSimulator12.1.sdk to .../iPhoneSimulator.sdk.

When you run the script you'll see...

$ ./sim.sh "iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (3rd generation)"
Packaging for iOS Simulator: iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (3rd generation)...
Uninstalling app from iOS Simulator if exists...
Installing on iOS Simulator...
Launching app on iOS Simulator...

Usage: ./sim.sh "iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (3rd generation)"

To get a list of simulator devices that you can pass to sim.sh, do this:

$xcrun simctl list devices
== Devices ==
-- iOS 12.1 --
    iPhone 5s (ADB3343E-C7FE-4AE5-9765-D093C9936B90) (Shutdown) 
    iPhone 6 (5E6C728C-64BF-4AD7-9A37-A34D416D8ABE) (Shutdown) 
    iPhone 6 Plus (9A3816FB-0319-476D-A916-F82F0446B1E6) (Shutdown) 
    iPhone 6s (5D4E1908-A7A4-465E-B5C3-618D5E22A334) (Shutdown) 
    iPhone 6s Plus (B913BBF2-4A1F-4E22-A10F-017062F204A4) (Shutdown) 
    iPhone 7 (C49F37AE-6A8C-4098-AE10-C6BD05454D6C) (Shutdown) 
    iPhone 7 Plus (795BCC5F-8AE7-4B34-B937-8904D44003F1) (Shutdown) 
    iPhone 8 (2D14F1ED-62B1-47B6-8823-C50AB861E0A5) (Shutdown) 
    iPhone 8 Plus (D570AFFD-D8DD-4C66-8D25-878759CBB234) (Shutdown) 
    iPhone SE (95A0E23F-B7D3-4A71-B3A8-B57808678D4B) (Shutdown) 
    iPhone X (822CEC4C-CF15-429A-8BFB-0BC69F5A0CE3) (Shutdown) 
    iPhone XS (7A3EDBA6-5A90-4626-9140-DB1C7C650B63) (Shutdown) 
    iPhone XS Max (8368B225-9E7D-454A-A726-452120A018C5) (Shutdown) 
    iPhone XR (285CBE47-656C-427A-9A42-21EE78C90135) (Shutdown) 
    iPad Air (B0D2085D-0B75-495E-9F9E-D0AFC52785F6) (Shutdown) 
    iPad Air 2 (F36F5E8F-39B6-49D9-A062-D69337973BAE) (Booted) 
    iPad (5th generation) (D2044591-EB6B-4ABC-90D4-3D1C58E46001) (Shutdown) 
    iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (ED4405C9-5F7E-4583-9717-BFA08709FC49) (Shutdown) 
    iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (3A10023B-7730-4F4E-AF7C-B0094B95DDF8) (Shutdown) 
    iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (2nd generation) (79493241-8938-42C6-AEF5-BDF4D087FA3F) (Shutdown) 
    iPad Pro (10.5-inch) (A79319D2-BDF3-459B-B737-8B7194691860) (Shutdown) 
    iPad (6th generation) (78D1258E-571C-4E96-9376-FF983EC0212E) (Shutdown) 
    iPad Pro (11-inch) (0D4EBB0C-059E-4320-BEDB-14E5A0591641) (Shutdown) 
    iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (3rd generation) (8AE329BE-DE28-4FEE-A0ED-983E435E980B) (Shutdown) 

Copy the full name without the (UUID) or device status, and pass it to your bash script.

Copy the following bash code to a sim.sh file, change all the assigned env vars, and chmod +x the file to execute. Oh, be sure the quotes are straight, not curly after pasting. Finally, note that the package command requires signing cert values, but they are ignored by the simulator, so just leave the package command values for -keystore "keep_this_as_is" and -storepass "keep_this_as_is" so the ADT command won't fail param validation phase.

Assumes you already built the app so there is an output directory with your swf, etc.

Begin File:

# !/bin/bash

# Edit the following assignments to your own, keeping in mind to use full paths, or source your .bash_profile to use ~/

CURRENT_FLEX_SDK="/Users/ethomas/linqto/FlexSDKs/SDK4.16.1-32-43"
IPA_PATH="/Users/ethomas/linqto/FlexDev/keiretsu/out/production/keiretsu/keiretsuforum.ipa"
APP_DESCR_PATH="/Users/ethomas/linqto/FlexDev/keiretsu/out/production/keiretsu/keiretsu-app.xml"
APP_BUNDLE_ID=com.linqto.keiretsuforum.debug
XCODE_SIM_SDK="/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator12.1.sdk"
ADT_EXTRA_PARAMS="-extdir /Users/ethomas/linqto/FlexDev/EventANE \
	-C /Users/ethomas/linqto/FlexDev/keiretsu/out/production/keiretsu Main.swf \
	-C /Users/ethomas/linqto/FlexDev/keiretsu/appicons . \
	-C /Users/ethomas/linqto/FlexDev/keiretsu/launchscreens . \
	-C /Users/ethomas/linqto/FlexDev/keiretsu Assets.car" 

function adt() {
    java -Dapplication.home=${CURRENT_FLEX_SDK} -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djava.awt.headless=true \
    	-Duser.language=en -Duser.region=en -Xmx1024m -jar ${CURRENT_FLEX_SDK}/lib/adt.jar "$@"
}

function installApp() {
	echo "Installing on iOS Simulator..."
	adt -installApp -platform ios \
		-platformsdk $XCODE_SIM_SDK \
		-device ios-simulator \
		-package $IPA_PATH &>/dev/null
}

if [ "$1" != "" ]; then
    export AIR_IOS_SIMULATOR_DEVICE="$1"
fi

echo "Packaging for iOS Simulator: ${AIR_IOS_SIMULATOR_DEVICE}..."
adt -package \
	-target ipa-debug-interpreter-simulator \
	-storetype PKCS12 \
	-keystore "keep_this_as_is" \
	-storepass "keep_this_as_is" $IPA_PATH $APP_DESCR_PATH \
	-platformsdk $XCODE_SIM_SDK \
	$ADT_EXTRA_PARAMS
if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
	echo "Failed to package the app!"
 	exit 1
fi

echo "Uninstalling app from iOS Simulator if exists..."
adt -uninstallApp -platform ios \
	-platformsdk $XCODE_SIM_SDK \
	-device ios-simulator \
	-appid $APP_BUNDLE_ID

installApp
if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
	# For some reason, this command often fails with bogus plist error, but do it again and it works
  	installApp
fi
if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
	# Nope failed twice, something else is going on
	echo "Failed to install the app!"
  	exit 1
fi

echo "Launching app on iOS Simulator..."
adt -launchApp -platform ios \
	-platformsdk $XCODE_SIM_SDK \
	-device ios-simulator -appid $APP_BUNDLE_ID 
if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
	echo "Failed to launch the app!"
  	exit 1
fi

Re: Running AIR apps in iOS Simulator - How To

[agm65 <ag...@gmx.de>]

it works very very well. no large css! yippi! awsome!

thanks alot!



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