Bluetooth app in iOS 6 Simulator

Trevor Harmon

Hi,

I'm trying to run TI's SensorTagEX sample application for iOS. On an iOS 6 device, it runs fine. It also runs fine on the iOS 5 Simulator using the Cirago Bluetooth LE adapter. However, it does not run on the iOS 6 Simulator. The app simply fails to connect. It's frustrating because testing code on the simulator is so much faster, and my code happens to require iOS 6. And as I said, it definitely works on the iOS 5 Simulator. Is this a known issue with Apple's iOS 6 Simulator? Thanks,

Trevor

over 12 years ago

0 Greenja over 12 years ago

Guru 22270 points

Hello Trevor,

If you didn't find any similar post on this forum with regards to the iOS 6 simulator, then you may have to visit developers.apple.com or stackoverflow.com and search there.

Changes to the simulator setting may be required to get the code working.

Thanks,

0 Trevor Harmon over 12 years ago in reply to Greenja

Prodigy 50 points

What exactly do you mean by "changes to the simulator setting"?

0 Greenja over 12 years ago in reply to Trevor Harmon

Guru 22270 points

Hello Trevor,

I was merely repeating some of the things mentioned on stackoverflow.com about issues with content not running and that they had gone into the setting to make changes.

Unfortuanately I do not own an iMac. I use techBasic write my iPad BLE apps. No simulator, just the trial and error method.

Thanks,

0 Charles Choi over 12 years ago in reply to Greenja

Intellectual 270 points

IMHO, the iOS simulator at the time of this post is unreliable. It partially implements the CoreBluetooth API but when you start really exercising it the fidelity to what actually happens in the hardware is not up to par.

Using the iOS simulator is detailed more in this Apple technical note: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#technotes/tn2295/_index.html

So in short, if you want to test an iOS app using CoreBluetooth, use an iOS device.

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