AirPlay Mirroring iPhone to Mac OS / using UIWebView + AirPlay

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JamieNewman picture JamieNewman · Oct 17, 2011 · Viewed 7.5k times · Source

I need to live-demo a Mobile Safari browser app (iOS 5, iPhone 4S) on my Macbook and was wondering the best way to do this?

One way I thought might be possible would be using AirPlay Mirroring, but there doesn't seem to be any Mac OS apps capable of showing my iPhone screen mirrored.

I am an (beginner) iOS developer and wondered if there was anyway I could knock up a basic app with a UIWebView in it to somehow stream the contents of the web page and my interactions with it to my Mac.

Any thoughts?

EDIT: Yes I know I could use the iPhone Simulator, but I need to interact with it on the handset using the mobile phone network.

Answer

mhoeffner picture mhoeffner · Oct 13, 2012

The situation has changed since this was asked.

AirServer (AirServerApp.com) and Reflection (ReflectionApp.com) both support AirPlay mirroring. Here's an article comparing them:

http://www.macstories.net/reviews/mirroring-multiple-ios-devices-to-a-mac-comparing-airserver-and-reflection/

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