Rather than a futile search for iOS app files, I went looking for an app that’d let me run a virtual OS on my Android phone, like VirtualBox for mobile. Turns out these are much harder to find than Android APKs (app files). It’s free for 100 minutes per month, more than enough for my pathetic attention span, but I didn’t get further than the one-minute demo (Appetize.io doesn’t come with ready-to-run apps, you see you have to upload a “simulator build” of an app.
Then I found Appetize.io (), not a fizzy drink made from Granny Smiths but an online mobile emulator popular with developers. Its installer was so crammed with junk that I rapidly directed myself away again. I have none of those things.Ī Google search for ‘iOS emulator’ directed me to iPadian (“Do you want to feel how it is to use an Apple device?”, ). There are tools like Xcode, which iOS developers use to test apps on their Mac computers, but to use these you need a working Mac and epic skill and patience. Trouble is, Apple is so protective of its operating system that it’s very hard, some say impossible, to virtualise. Putting down her phone, Jane installed iOS Emulator on her PC insteadĪpps in my i-deviceless life is an iPhone/ iPad emulator. Up to 50% OFF EaseUS Video Tools (RecExperts, Video Editor, VideoKit, Video Downloader, Video Converter, Video Compressor and MakeMyAudio).
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Android emulators abound, too: I particularly like ApkOnline (because it lets you run Android apps in your browser without the need to download anything. There are thousands of emulators that let you use virtual versions of tech, from Windows 3.0 Emulator (to RetroVirtual Machine (which will bring happy tears to the eyes of Spectrum and Amstrad aficionados. The usual way around such frustrations is to use an emulator. Us Android users feel like kids locked outside the sweet shop while our iPhone-using friends get first dibs I’m dying to use privacy newbie Jumbo (and QI’s GetFact (but they’re both still iOS-only. Fair enough, but it leaves us Android users feeling like kids locked outside the sweet shop while our iPhone-using friends get first dibs. It’s not because they want to be cruel – they’re hamstrung by Android’s more complex open-source code and sheer variety of devices. After waiting months for iOS apps to launch on Android, Jane Hoskyn loses patience and (almost) works out how toĭevelopers often release an app for iOS months before launching it for Android.
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