iPhone emulator for a developer without an iPhone?
 

what's out there?

Have Catie buy you one :2 cents: Should be pretty easy :winkwink:

Never could find one myself.

Gotta have an iphone, damn u Apple

The SDK that you use to develop apps has one built in. Pretty much all you need.

Pick up the cheapest iTouch (iPod). It's an iPhone without the phone, but it is great and inexpensive for testing sites. You don't need an actual iPhone.

http://www.testiphone.com/

http://iphone-emulator.org/

You need this
http://www.perfectomobile.com/portal/cms

You can choose any mobile device. Its live, you can see with a cam what you are doing on the device. As a developer you cant do without them.

Web emulation only. No native app emulation.


No Apple


Your only options Mutt are to use XCode which comes with an emulator or buy an iPhone. If you go the iPhone route you'll need to be a paying developer or have a jailbroken iPhone in order to run the program on it.

Note: XCode is Mac Only

my developer is rich, he should buy his own iphone

great idea but no Apple :Oh crap

and just about every Pawn shop has a whole cabinet full of them even cheaper. :thumbsup

Depending on what you need, you could use something like this:
http://twistedbydesigns.com/playground/

It's handy for web testing, and tends to be pretty accurate.. although a pain in the ass.

Overall, your best bet is Xcode, a mac mini, and an Ipod touch.

I've been developing games and native apps for iphone the last few months, and any other way just seems like you're jumping through too many hoops and then the previews aren't even accurate.

I've been deving on a $599 mac mini at the office, loaded it up with ram and it's incredibly fast and easy to develop once you know what you're doing.

http://www.perfectomobile.com/portal.../handsets.html

Seems apple is available.

there isn't any, trust me I had a client that wanted an HTML5 iOS app made. I ended up having to purchase an ipad to test it for iphone and ipad. All the windows "simulators" (they're not emulators) can't render the design correctly or compile the coding.

get a used ipad or ipod touch... and or a used mac

OK I missed that. But unless Mutt is testing out websites that site would be completely useless to him.

Apple has their dev environment locked down. XCode emulator, an iPhone with a dev account attached, or a jailbroken iPhone are the only ways you are testing apps.

You could always make a Hackintosh and use the Xcode?

Are you having a native app developed or just webpage/webapp? I'll assume just a webpage, and even for that it's really best to use an actual iOS device for testing. I ran into all kinds of issues recently related to the limited RAM on the device or something like that - it's a real pain for doing large AJAX calls and some other jquery stuff.

Best option: buy an iphone.
Quick google: http://iphonetester.com/
Other than that, Xcode is standard, but need a mac.