{"id":2287,"date":"2015-10-20T19:25:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T19:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=2287"},"modified":"2015-10-20T19:29:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T19:29:21","slug":"how-to-test-cordova-plugins-in-ionic-without-a-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/stack-overflow\/how-to-test-cordova-plugins-in-ionic-without-a-device\/","title":{"rendered":"How to test Cordova plugins in Ionic without a device?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI’m a big fan of Stack Overflow<\/a> and I tend to contribute regularly (am currently in the top 0.X%<\/a>).\u00a0In this category (stackoverflow<\/a>)\u00a0of posts, I will be posting my top rated questions and answers. This, btw, is allowed as explained in the meta thread here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As you may know, I’m really into Ionic framework lately\u00a0and am helping out on StackOverflow with the knowledge I gained so far with the framework. I’m in the top All time answerers<\/a> list.<\/p>\n

I answered\u00a0this question<\/a>\u00a0by userChris Lawrence<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I think I know the answer to this question already but thought I would throw it out there incase there was a workaround….<\/p>\n

Just built a ionic app with ngcordova, which works fine and I have tested on my android device and deployed to playstore.<\/p>\n

Just in the process of deploying to the apple app store. I currently don’t have an apple ios physical device to test the cordova plugins.<\/p>\n

I am using sms, camera and local notification. These as far as am aware cannot be tested in the ios simulator in xcode.<\/p>\n

Don’t really want to spend \u00a3400 on a tablet to test one app.. any one had the same problem and found a means of testing?<\/p>\n

My answer<\/a> was:<\/p>\n

You can test plugins in iOS simulator.<\/p>\n

edit:<\/strong> I just stumbled upon the official documentation<\/a> where it states that even with Ionic View you can test these plugins:<\/p>\n