Building for IOS Simulator without provisioning profiles

Hi,

How do you build for the IOS Simulator without provisioning profiles when I don’t have an Apple Developer Account? With the old dialog, you could select to build for the simulator only.

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But now the build button is not active, because I cant specify I want to build for the simulator

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How do I enable building just for the IOS Simulator without a provisioning profile?

Thanks in advance  :slight_smile:

Apparently you were enjoying the benefit of a bug we hadn’t noticed (the button shouldn’t have been enabled if a provisioning profile wasn’t selected).  Building for the iOS Simulator without a provisioning profile is possible though (in fact, due to some vagaries of Xcode we effectively deselect any chosen profile when building for the iOS Simulator) so I’ll restore the behavior by allowing “None” as a valid choice.

I’m interested in your use case … what’s the end goal given a provisioning profile is needed to run an app on an actual device? 

I don’t have an iPhone or an Apple Developer account yet, the iOS simulator gives me the benefit of testing it on iOS before having to purchase these things. I always thought this was an intended feature.  :smiley:

Apparently we did announce support for that at one point … my mistake.

Daily Build 2719 or higher restores this capability (this will be available shortly).

Note that you can get a non-distribution provisioning profile with a free Apple Developer account since Xcode 7.  This would enable you to test on an actual device which will have much better graphical performance than the Xcode iOS Simulator and will allow better testing of touch events.

Apparently you were enjoying the benefit of a bug we hadn’t noticed (the button shouldn’t have been enabled if a provisioning profile wasn’t selected).  Building for the iOS Simulator without a provisioning profile is possible though (in fact, due to some vagaries of Xcode we effectively deselect any chosen profile when building for the iOS Simulator) so I’ll restore the behavior by allowing “None” as a valid choice.

I’m interested in your use case … what’s the end goal given a provisioning profile is needed to run an app on an actual device? 

I don’t have an iPhone or an Apple Developer account yet, the iOS simulator gives me the benefit of testing it on iOS before having to purchase these things. I always thought this was an intended feature.  :smiley:

Apparently we did announce support for that at one point … my mistake.

Daily Build 2719 or higher restores this capability (this will be available shortly).

Note that you can get a non-distribution provisioning profile with a free Apple Developer account since Xcode 7.  This would enable you to test on an actual device which will have much better graphical performance than the Xcode iOS Simulator and will allow better testing of touch events.