So let’s say that you’ve been reading about making demo videos for your app using the simulator, and figure yeah, that sounds like a good idea … but OH NOES! The workflow you want to show involves native applications like Maps that don’t run in the simulator! What to do? What to do?
Well, those savants over at Mobile Orchard are on the case for you.
… However, when the app is run on iPhone Simulator, Safari is launched and a standard Google Maps webpage is loaded. A similar effect can be accomplished in iPhone Simulator by creating a mock Maps application that uses screen shots taken from the native Maps application on the iPhone.
Creating and using a mock application involves three steps:
1. Capture screen shots from the native application on the device.
2. Download a mock application from GitHub and customize it.
3. Create a demo build of your application to launch the mock application instead of the native one.
Sounds like a pretty big time sink, yes? Well, not really, the article provides a pretty complete-looking tutorial and code for a mock application, so hey if you have something that you were just chomping at the bit to do a video of, check it out!
JAN