Tools for Apache Cordova/Visual Studio 2015 fails to launch app in IOS simulator

Question

Im trying to test my app using MacInCloud and remotebuild on the IOS simulator. Everything works great and the app compiles using remotebuild. Visual Studio then displays a stat

Answer 1

This may be an issue with ios-sim. We'll be publishing an updated version with a fix for that issue shortly, but you may be able to try a workaround in the short term.

On the mac, go to ~/.taco_home/node_modules/taco-remote-lib/<VERSION>/node_modules/taco-remote-lib/ and run npm uninstall ios-sim && npm install ios-sim@5.0.4. For the VERSION, you want to use the latest 1.X if you are using cordova earlier than 5.4.0, and the latest 2.X if you are using a newer version of cordova.

The reason that the deployment is reported as successful is that we use ios-sim for deploying and launching at the same time, so the deploy step is a no-op for the iOS simulator.