iPhone device vs. iPhone simulator

Question

I have heard of apps not working properly on the simulator but working properly on the actual iPhone device. Has anyone experienced an app that runs perfectly in the simula

Answer 1

Resource loading in the simulator is MUCH faster than in the device. For example, loading and displaying a sequence of full-screen UIImages (like a rudimentary video) can look very smooth in the simulator, and choppy on a device.

In fact, remember that there is a huge speed difference between different devices. The original iPhone and the iPhone 3G are slower than the iPod touch 2nd Gen, which is also much slower than the iPhone 3GS, and so on.

Answer 2

Regarding sounds, I was having the same problem. The issue was that the sound encodings that the Simulator supports is a different set of sounds than the device. I hope that helps.

Answer 3

I had some sound effects that played fine in the simulator, but not on the device. I had to change the format to something that the device would handle.

Answer 4

If status bar of application is hidden,In case of simulator it still consumes touch event. But in the device it behaves perfectly.

Answer 5

When trying to access the UIDevice.currentDevice(), it returns iOS Simulator instead of the actual device you're testing. This sucks, since you can't do certain things on the simulator.

Answer 6

Fingertips are larger than the 1 pixel endpoint of a mouse cursor. To do proper, even minimal, usability testing you should deploy your App to a device.