Setting up a test bed mobile app

As a proving ground for the things we're going to try, we'll set up a single mobile app that has multiple screens, one for each of the things we want to test.

Tip

What to call the test bed app?

We could call it almost anything, but we'll let the iPhone help make the decision for us. On the iPhone, and iPod touch, there is only a small amount of space under the home screen icons for the name to appear. iOS will take your nice long app name and will show a shortened version of the name, using ellipses to concatenate the ends of the name together. "My super duper app" will appear as "My sup…app" - not quite as informative! The number of letters that can appear without it being truncated will vary depending on the width of the letters used, but typically it is a limit of 11 letters. So, we will call the test bed app "LC Test Bed", which is exactly 11 letters!