Issues emulating ios

rickyk586 · November 18, 2014, 12:07pm

Running the emulate command under /platforms/ios/cordova/emulate worked for me as well on Yosemite.

rojo · November 18, 2014, 7:09pm

What are the steps you took exactly? Because I’ve tried this and I keep getting the timeout issue or permissions denied.

I navigate to /platforms/ios/cordova/emulate within the project folder, click on that
Opens up the terminal and simulator, I get a Permission denied, NSLocalizedFailureReason=An error was encountered while running error
run the command line with sudo (for permission issue) sudo {{ project path }}/platforms/ios/cordova/emulate, continue to get timeout issue Session could not be started: Error Domain=DTiPhoneSimulatorErrorDomain Code=2 "Simulator session timed out.
Tried everything with both emulator already running and then without it open. Both same timeout issue.

I’ll keep trying solutions and let y’all know if I come up with anything. Running Yosemite as well.

eychu · November 19, 2014, 9:25pm

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/Tyrhus/993b754bdeb6fd6d67cd

emulate.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Manually emulate ionic/cordova application
# Miroslav Masat 2014 

echo "Emulating..."
cd ./platforms/ios/build/emulator
var=$(pwd)

ios-sim launch "$var"/*.app

usage:
setup application the standard way

$ ionic start myApp tabs
$ cd myApp
$ ionic platform add ios
$ ionic build ios

Then create a file called emulate.sh in that directory and copy the content of this gist into it. Next you have to set permissions for this shell script.

$ sudo chmod 777 emulate.sh
After that, each time you want to emulate your application in iOS simulator, just run: ./emulate.sh
OR without change chmod
$ source ./emulate.sh

I hope this works for you. Enjoy!

rojo · November 20, 2014, 12:13am

@eychu no go unfortunately. I still keep getting a timeout issue.:

Session could not be started: Error Domain=DTiPhoneSimulatorErrorDomain Code=2 "Simulator session timed out." UserInfo=0x7fe3e3e1fa70 {NSLocalizedDescription=Simulator session timed out.}

I did find another solution though, which I actually like a lot since I can test directly on my iphone wirelessly and without having to pay for an apple dev account. Using the Phonegap dev app on my phone (http://app.phonegap.com/), I simply serve the app using phonegap CLI instead of ionic and connect to it with my phone:

$ phonegap serve

Then whatever address it gives me I plug into the the mobile app and it runs like a native app, with autoreload support out of the box. It’s pretty cool.

mloparco · November 22, 2014, 1:38am

I got the same error, definitely disconcerting when the “getting started” blows up:

Session could not be started: Error Domain=DTiPhoneSimulatorErrorDomain Code=2 “Simulator session timed out.” UserInfo=0x7fc86a71a4d0 {NSLocalizedDescription=Simulator session timed out.}
Error: /Users/mloparco/dropbox/private/tech/ionic/myTabs/platforms/ios/cordova/run: Command failed with exit code 1
at ChildProcess.whenDone (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/cordova/superspawn.js:135:23)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:98:17)
at maybeClose (child_process.js:756:16)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:823:5)

Ionic is awesome, but can we please get a flawless install going, or better support PhoneGap Build so we don’t have to deal with obscure CLI issues?

mloparco · November 22, 2014, 1:43am

Double-clicking /platforms/ios/cordova/emulate seemed to work for me as well (still got Timeout error, but at least the myTabs demo was able to run).

jeffmmm · November 25, 2014, 9:15pm

Has anyone else noticed that the error is from …/platforms/ios/cordova/run ? It should be running cordova/emulate instead. If you run it from finder it loads the app in the simulator. What is making the decision to call “run” instead of “emulate”? I think that is the issue here.

dylboy · December 28, 2014, 10:06am

I just used “cordova emulate ios” inside the app folder. It is working perfectly. Still it would be nice if it was working via “Getting Started”

Bigby · January 15, 2015, 7:50pm

I get the same error.

dfang · March 17, 2015, 2:06pm

for me , ionic/cordova emulate ios get nothing on simulator, but this works !

thank you very much

disto · April 3, 2015, 10:10am

Reset Content and Settings in the iOS Simulator fixed the problem for me.

JeffTian · April 11, 2015, 4:34am

I got the same error, and re install ios platform solved my issue. The commands I used in order:

sudo ionic platform rm ios
ionic platform add ios
ionic build ios
ionic emulate ios

adamhenson · April 12, 2015, 3:20am

Same here. And I believe the cause of the issue for me was that I previously used sudo to add ios.

ashwinvandijk · April 22, 2015, 11:21pm

This solution worked for me. Chmodded my app folder (recursive) to 777, then added and builded ios again. The iPhone 6 emulator boots up and everything works as expected.

willyCi · May 13, 2015, 1:34am

thanks, that was my mistake.
don’t use the sudo, everything works now.

ios-sim --version 3.1.1
cordova -v 5.0.0
ionic -v 1.3.22
xcode 6.1.1