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Installing an iOS simulator

Installing an iOS simulator

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Installing an iOS simulator

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- The best way to tests Native applications is on the device itself. If you don't have access to the device itself you can install simulators. The IOS simulator comes with Xcode. So in order to install it we need it install Xcode. So I can come in here and go to the app store and search for Xcode. Once we find it we will simply click install and Xcode we'll be downloaded and installed on our MAC. So with Xcode installed I'm going to come into our ColorCatalog application and run npm start. Doing so will start our Expo Bundler project and get our tunnel up and running and once our tunnel is ready you'll notice a button over here that says run on IOS simulator. When I click this button, Xcode will find your default IOS simulator and then run the current project within that simulator. Sometimes Expo gets hung up and doesn't complete this progress successfully. When this happens, or if it feels like something went wrong…

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