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Mastering iOS Game Development

You're reading from   Mastering iOS Game Development Mastering iOS Game Development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783554355
Length 228 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Peter Ahlgren Peter Ahlgren
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Miguel DeQuadros Miguel DeQuadros
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Testing our project


No doubt you've been messing around with the iOS simulator (a feature that, to be honest, is very helpful, and that I found easier to access than the Android SDK emulator), which is awesome, but there is actually quite a lot that you can do with it without having to actually install anything on a physical device.

Let's open up our device simulator. To do this, inside Xcode, click on Xcode on the bar at the top, then click on Open Developer Tool, and finally click on iOS Simulator.

You will now be greeted with a pixel-for-pixel simulation of any iOS device of your choice:

As I mentioned earlier, I like to use the iPhone 4S simulator because it's small enough to fit on my screen, but you do have your pick of the litter. Is your simulator set to a device that you don't want? Want to change it to something else such as the glittery iPhone 6+? No problem!

Simply click on Hardware on the top bar. Then, under Device, you can select any awesome Apple mobile device you like! When...

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