how to launch ios simulator from phonegap

Question

when i try to launch ios simulator from command line by using $ phonegap run ios i get the below error

Error: ios-sim was not found. Please download, build and install version 1.5 or greater from https://github.com/phonegap/ios-sim into your path. Or 'brew install ios-sim' using homebrew: http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

i even tried copying the above ios-sim folder into my path. still getting an error.

Answer 1

Best Solution:

1. Make sure you have XCode and its command line tools installed and accepted the license agreements

2. Download and install Homebrew by executing following command in terminal:

   ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go/install)"

3. Install ios-sim via Homebrew by executing:

   brew install ios-sim

4. Watch for error messages or upon successfull installation, you should be able to run the iOS Simulator:

   phonegap run ios

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Alternative Solution:

You could try installing ios-sim via npm:

• Head over to http://nodejs.org/ and install node.js (npm will be automatically installed as node's package manager).
• Install ios-sim via npm by executing

  sudo npm install ios-sim -g

• if you're on a Windows machine, open the command prompt as administrator and execute npm install ios-sim instead

Answer 2

To run on simulator we need to install ios-sim and ios-deploy.

Following are steps to run on iOS emulator

1. Install ios-sim using npm by executing:

   sudo npm install ios-sim -g

2. Install ios-deploy using npm by executing:

   sudo npm install ios-deploy -g

3. Make sure your simulator is running

4. Final Command:

   phonegap run ios --emulator

If need to run on particular simulator then following are steps:

1. Find out list of available simulators and their exact name

   cordova emulate ios --list

2. now run on particular simulator using:

   cordova emulate ios --target="XXXXXX"