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Smart Phone Emulator for Testing

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  • 05-09-2011 5:39pm
    #1
    the_god_swan
    Registered Users Posts: 168 ✭✭


    Hi All,

    I'm currently working for a small web design company, it’s a small setup just a few developers and me as a one man test department! I've been testing software for the last few years so that not an issue. This website testing is going fine but now the product owners want to insure the site is supported by web browsing on smart phones.

    I've been googling like mad for a couple of hours now and searched boards history also. But cannot find any browser based or install app solution.

    So I'm wondering if you folks know of any reputable methods of carrying out this testing for both Android and iPhone? Bar going out and buying a handful of phones!!!

    I'm running MS Windows now.

    Cheers


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    #2
    Bigcheeze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Bigcheeze


    Not an emulator as you connect to a physical device:

    http://deviceanywhere.com/

    Also it's not free but there is a free trial option.


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    the_god_swan
    Registered Users Posts: 168 ✭✭the_god_swan


    Bigcheeze wrote: »
    Not an emulator as you connect to a physical device:

    http://deviceanywhere.com/

    Also it's not free but there is a free trial option.


    Cheers Bigcheeze ill look into that ;)


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    srsly78
    Registered Users Posts: 7,157 ✭✭✭srsly78


    Android emulator comes with sdk: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html You can vary the screensize of the virtual device, so for your testing you might like to create lots of virtual devices corresponding to small/medium/large phones.


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    Freddio
    Registered Users Posts: 650 ✭✭✭Freddio


    Seeing as you are testing for websites as opposed to apps you could create a html page with a bordered iframe with the screen resolutions you are testing for. eg for testing on an iPhone (320px X 480px) use the following
    <html>
<body>
<br/>
<br/>
<center>
<iframe src="http://www.google.ie"   	width="320" height="480" style="border: solid #000 1px;"  scrolling="no">
</iframe>
</center>
</body>
</html>


    You also need to remember the quirky things like iPhone doesnt support flash and there are a multitude of screen resolutions on android


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    srsly78
    Registered Users Posts: 7,157 ✭✭✭srsly78


    There aren't a multitude, there are well-defined small/medium/large/tablet. And emulator can be easily setup to test these. iPhone also has different screensizes, for 3gs vs iphone 4, same aspect ratio tho.


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    Bigcheeze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Bigcheeze


    srsly78 wrote: »
    There aren't a multitude, there are well-defined small/medium/large/tablet. And emulator can be easily setup to test these. iPhone also has different screensizes, for 3gs vs iphone 4, same aspect ratio tho.

    There are different Android screen resolutions within the same screen size though.


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    p
    Registered Users Posts: 2,119 ✭✭✭p


    Buy some smart phones/ipod touches, and add it into the cost of the additional testing.

    Xcode and Android SDk come with Emulators, Dreamweaver comes with it's device central and browser lab to help you, but honestly, those tools are all good for quick checks, the real deal is always best.


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    Ricky91t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,281 ✭✭✭Ricky91t


    If you've got a mac download Xcode and start up the iPhone simulator, Open safari and off you go :)


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    #10
    yutta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭yutta


    the_god_swan wrote: »
    I'm running MS Windows now.

    Buy a Mac and install XCode and Eclipse.

    Else install Eclipse and hackintosh on your PC.


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