Running Apple Watch app with ios-sim

[TiagoLira]

Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong place...
I'm trying to run a WatchKit app using ios-sim, but I haven't managed to find how to do it. Is this supported? Are there any arguments that I can use for it?

[shazron]

No it is not supported currently. We rely on getting the device list, and it is not listed as a device on the system (since it is considered an External Display).

Technically we could:

1. inspect the .app for a watchkit extension
2. after the simulator (must be at least 8.2 I think) is started, somehow launch the Apple Watch external display

Item 1 should be easy, not sure about item 2 yet.

[davidmarble]

https://github.com/appcelerator/ios-sim seems to have solved this. Might just want to check their code out. Not sure why they're not trying to contribute back to this active repo. Possibly a lot of refactoring.

[shazron]

This will be solved in ios-sim 4.0. See issues in simctl https://github.com/phonegap/simctl/issues

[shazron]

ios-sim 4.0 is under a branch of this repo, but doesn't have the watch pairing commands yet.

[mteper]

Is there a reference to learn about these new iOS9 simctl commands?

[shazron]

In your Terminal, type xcrun simctl
(xcode-select to select the appropriate Xcode.app if you want to use the new commands for the watch in Xcode 7)