I have photos on my Mac that I would like to add to the iPhone Simulator to test my application.
In other words: how do I add photos to the iPhone Simulator?
Edit : What about iphone Simulator 4.0 ? iphone Simulator 3.0 & 4.0 both working differently.
Thanks in advance for helping me...
Open the Window in mac where your images are stored.
Open your simulator another side.
Now drag your image from mac window to simulator,
simulator will open safari, and in a safari tab your image will be shown.
Tap & press down on image in simulator,
There will be message to "save image",
save image.
It will be added to your iPhone simulator.
Edit :
First just look at following image.
In iPhone simulator 4.0 ( iphone/iphone simulator ), itself it maintains a sqlite database for added images. So, if you want copy paste system - first make insert entries & then copy paste. That would be ridiculous way.
Ok. Let me explain simpler way of doing it.
A more easy to understand version of sagar's answer:
Open a Finder window to where your images are stored and the iPhone Simulator. Then drag the images from the Finder window into the simulator. The simulator will open Safari with your image. Click and hold to save the image to the iPhone camera roll. You can now use those images as you normally would.
I had the same question recently. The drop-the-photo-on-Safari approach works well enough if you're doing one at a time. For several images at once, I found a great blog post that explains where the simulator finds it's images.
The same poster links to a bash script to load a directory of images into the simulator. I now use this to reset my simulator's environment to a known good state as part of my build. That way, I can keep my images together with my code instead of depending on the state of the simulator's directory tree.
EDIT The original script was on a server that seems to be gone. I've pasted it here with the change needed for iPhone SDK 3.0. Credit for the script properly goes to the author of "Of Code and Men".
#!/bin/bash
simPath="$HOME/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/User/Media/DCIM/100APPLE"
thmPath="$simPath/.MISC"
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo usage: $0 "<folder>"
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -d "$simPath" ]; then
mkdir -p "$simPath"
mkdir -p "$thmPath"
fi
# Find out which incremential number we're at currently.
index=1
for i in `ls $1/*.{jpg,png,gif,bmp} 2>/dev/null`; do
while [ -f "$simPath/`printf IMG_%04d.JPG $index`" ]; do
let index=$index+1
done
jpgName=`printf IMG_%04d.JPG $index`
thmName=`printf IMG_%04d.THM $index`
echo $i "->" $simPath/$jpgName
sips -s format jpeg $i --out "$simPath/$jpgName" > /dev/null 2> /dev/null || continue
sips -s format jpeg -z 96 96 $i --out "$thmPath/$thmName" > /dev/null 2> /dev/null || continue
let index=$index+1
done
For a few images:
(this will keep everything together for this project and folder can be removed from project at your discretion)
(image(s) will open in safari)
Image(s) will now be in the 'photos app' album in simulator. This was quickest and cleanest way for me.
I've been using an automated technique I originally found at iPhone Dev SDK. Include the images in your app's resources, then:
UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithName:@"imageName.jpg"];
UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(image, nil, nil, nil);
3 Simple Steps
1) Drag & Drop image onto simulator
- this will open a browser with your image
2) Click & hold image
- this will open options
3) save image
- this will copy image onto simulator
Watch YouTube Video ( add images to iphone simulator)
I've edited the script to create a structure that works with the iPhone 4.0.1 simulator. On my system I have subfolders for iphone simulator 3.2, 4.0 and 4.0.1. So I've kept the original output of the script and modified the structure as it needs to create a PhotoData folder for the thumbnails. After running the script I create sym links for the 3.2 4.0 and 4.0.1 simulator directories as follows:
ln -s $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/iPhone\ Simulator/User/Media/DCIM/ $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/iPhone\ Simulator/4.0.1/Media/DCIM
ln -s $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/iPhone\ Simulator/User/Media/PhotoData/ $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/iPhone\ Simulator/4.0.1/Media/PhotoData
future runs of the script will update all simulators. Here's the modified script:
#!/bin/bash
rootPath="$HOME/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/User/Media"
relPath="100APPLE"
simPath="$rootPath/DCIM/$relPath"
thmPath="$rootPath/PhotoData/$relPath"
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo usage: $0 "<folder>"
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -d "$simPath" ]; then
mkdir -p "$simPath"
mkdir -p "$thmPath"
fi
echo "Finding pictures..."
# Find out which incremential number we're at currently.
index=1
for i in `ls $1/*.{JPG,jpg,png,gif,bmp} 2>/dev/null`; do
echo "considering $i..."
while [ -f "$simPath/`printf IMG_%04d.JPG $index`" ]; do
let index=$index+1
done
jpgName=`printf IMG_%04d.JPG $index`
thmName=`printf IMG_%04d.THM $index`
echo $i "->" $simPath/$jpgName
echo $i "->" $thmPath/$thmName
sips -s format jpeg $i --out "$simPath/$jpgName" > /dev/null 2> /dev/null || continue
sips -s format jpeg -z 96 96 $i --out "$thmPath/$thmName" > /dev/null 2> /dev/null || continue
let index=$index+1
done
I've been updating the script to try and add enough data to the SqlLite databases. As soon as you save a photo from safari the following data is entered:
sqlite> select * from Photo;
primaryKey|type|title|captureTime|width|height|userRating|flagged|thumbnailIndex|orientation|directory|filename|duration|recordModDate
43|0|IMG_0037|320336214.0|640|427|0|0|0|1|DCIM/100APPLE|IMG_0037.JPG|0.0|320336214.933387
sqlite> select * from PhotoExtras;
primaryKey|foreignKey|identifier|sequence|value
142|43|1|-1|DCIM/100APPLE
143|43|2|-1|IMG_0037.JPG
144|43|3|-1|76616
145|43|6|-1|
streamtyped???@???NSMutableDictionary
146|43|7|-1|286
147|43|8|-1|
streamtyped???@???NSValue
148|43|9|-1|8252
149|43|10|-1|1
150|43|13|-1|0
The Photo table data seems quite simple although I'm currently assuming captureTime is not relevant. The PhotoExtras stuff is a bit more involved and seems necessary as my current script, which needs image magicks identify command, is not working.
identifier 1 is directory name identifier 2 is jpg name identifier 3 is file size in bytes
If anyone can help with the others..
The script as it stands is below:
#!/bin/bash
rootPath="$HOME/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/4.2/Media"
relPath="100APPLE"
simPath="$rootPath/DCIM/$relPath"
sqlDB="$rootPath/PhotoData/Photos.sqlite"
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo usage: $0 "<folder>"
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -d "$simPath" ]; then
mkdir -p "$simPath"
fi
echo "Finding pictures..."
# Find out which incremential number we're at currently.
index=1
for i in `ls $1/*.{JPG,jpg,png,gif,bmp} 2>/dev/null`; do
echo "considering $i..."
while [ -f "$simPath/`printf IMG_%04d.JPG $index`" ]; do
let index=$index+1
done
imgName=`printf IMG_%04d $index`
jpgName=`printf IMG_%04d.JPG $index`
thmName=`printf IMG_%04d.THM $index`
jpgWidth=`identify -format %w $i`
jpgHeight=`identify -format %h $i`
echo $i "->" $simPath/$jpgName
jpgSize=`stat -f %z $i`
jpgDir="DCIM/100APPLE"
sips -s format jpeg $i --out "$simPath/$jpgName" > /dev/null 2> /dev/null || continue
sqlite3 "$sqlDB" "insert into Photo (title,width,height,directory,filename) values ('$imgName',$jpgWidth,$jpgHeight,'$jpgDir','$jpgName')"
foreignKey=`sqlite3 "$sqlDB" "select primaryKey from Photo where title='$imgName'"`
sqlite3 "$sqlDB" "insert into PhotoExtras (foreignKey,identifier,value) values ($foreignKey,1,'$jpgDir'); \
insert into PhotoExtras (foreignKey,identifier,value) values ($foreignKey,2,'$jpgName'); \
insert into PhotoExtras (foreignKey,identifier,value) values ($foreignKey,3,$jpgSize);"
let index=$index+1
done
I'll edit if I get further, the next stage is identifying what the various .ithmb files contain. Hopefully some sort of stack of jpg thumbnails.
