Run .app file in iOS 8 simulator

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user2990765 picture user2990765 · Dec 5, 2014 · Viewed 17.2k times · Source

I have a .app file shared from a developer which i would like to run in iOS 8 simulator. I have seen similar questions which has solutions for older versions of iOS which is no longer working for iOS 8. Can someone point out what needs to be done to run the .app file in an iOS 8 simulator without using xcode.

Answer

Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia picture Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia · Dec 5, 2014

Boot the simulator you want to install it to in the iOS Simulator and then do the following:

xcrun simctl install booted /path/to/Your.app
xcrun simctl launch booted com.yourcompany.yourapp

The "booted" token was not supported on older versions of simctl in Xcode 6.0. If you get an error, please use the full device UDID instead of "booted". You can determine the UDID by running xcrun simctl list

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