PhoneGap AIR Simulator in development | April 1st, 2009
PhoneGap AIR Simulator is specifically made for testing PhoneGap projects, and go beyond Apple’s iPhone simulator as well as supporting Android application development and Blackberry. As this is an Adobe AIR application, it can run on Mac, Windows and Linux.
One of the key feature is the accelerometer console powered by Papervision. You can tilt/rotate a virtual iPhone in 3D space which passes simulated X/Y/Z accelerometer value to the navigator in phonegap.js. Above screenshot is a sample demo game that I made with HTML/javascript/CSS and PhoneGap which you can try out in the simulator demo below. Tilt The simulator also detects certain PhoneGap javascript methods such as “vibrate()” or “sound()” which gets translated into an action in AIR.
In the near future, we are adding:
- Geolocation console - uses Google Maps API to simulate GPS values
- Firebug Lite integration
These downloads are only to show work in progress and is not ready for actual testing of PhoneGap projects, but stay tuned fore more updates!
Download:
Phonegap AIR Simulator Demo
Source Zip (Development snapshot)
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April 2nd, 2009 at 6:42 am
[...] is a pretty huge day for PhoneGap. We released the Simualtor and the Android version of the PhoneGap demo. However, we need your [...]
April 2nd, 2009 at 7:18 am
Brilliant move!
April 4th, 2009 at 2:52 am
[...] an mobile phone simulator ( emulator ) build in AdobeAir, that alows you to test and debug your apps developed for iphone,android,palm pre [...]
April 5th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Great use of Adobe Air, one question though how will you handle the differences that may occur between the webkit build adobe air is using and the actual webkit build that’s on the iPhone? It could potentially become an issue as I would imagine Adobe would update their webkit build faster than the iPhone would.
April 6th, 2009 at 6:23 am
Good thoughts Ryan. We are planning on writing js/css file for the simulator which will sort out the differences between iPhone webkit and AIR webkit. This won’t be exclusive to rendering issues and will cover interaction differences (e.g. touch event).
April 7th, 2009 at 12:30 am
[...] to use native features of both the iPhone & Android in a web app. Somebody has now created an AIR based emulator so you can test out your creations without a native device. Spread the [...]
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Awesome! Desperately need the Firebug!
June 20th, 2009 at 9:26 am
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August 26th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Trying it out right now. Awesome!!!
October 19th, 2009 at 10:52 am
[...] When I was developing the web app for Performa Sports, I was curious to search the interwebz to see if it was possible to port my application onto the App Store, and I came across PhoneGap. PhoneGap allows you to port your web application into an Xcode template, and uses HTML and JavaScript to turn your web app into a native app, it’s a really nice framework but it is largely still in development, and I think they are waiting for approval on version 0.8 from Apple any day now. The developers behing the PhoneGap project (Nitobi) have released an Adobe Air application, called the PhoneGap Simulator. [...]
April 29th, 2010 at 5:13 am
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July 3rd, 2010 at 10:07 am
Thanks for the iPhone simulator (Phonegap AIR Simulator Demo). It’s the first desktop simulator that actually works for me. I’m testing iPhone webpages and in many simulators the webpages do not look as they actually look on a real iPhone. So visual testing is not possible then.
Happy!
July 27th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Is this still being developed? Is there a public source repo somewhere?
Thanks and well done!
August 9th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
@Jim
Sorry for late response. You can get the latest source from http://github.com/phonegap/PhoneGapSimulator.