chore: add help text to assist when no Simulators are available #237
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I am dying to see this Xcode Simulator UI. In later ioslib versions, I added a CLI that has a "reset-sims" command that creates all of the sims for a specific Xcode version: https://github.com/tidev/ioslib/blob/master/bin/ioslib#L265-L316. Maybe we want to leverage that? |
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| const helpText = '\n\nPlease open Xcode, navigate to "Window > Devices and Simulators" and create a new Simulator with your preferred configuration.'; | |||
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Do we want to check the Xcode version and only show this additional help for Xcode 15?
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If no Simulator is available, this can also mean that a Simulator was deleted or corrupted (even in earlier Xcode versions). That way, we can show this message for all cases where a Simular does not exist.
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Regarding auto-generating Simulators: I would try to not to do that, as it will take away disk space while users don't even need more Simulators. For me personally, I always use one (maximum two if iPad as well) Simulators, so more Simulators would just take extra space. That was probably also the reason why Apple stopped auto-generating them in the first place. Slim like a pancake! 🥞 |
Xcode does not auto-create Simulators anymore. Before a long-term solution is added (fetch sims, fetch runtimes, create and link sim), this will resolve all user questions regarding this question already. I am not even sure if we should auto-create them at all, as Xcode offers the perfect UI to list, preview, create and link Simulators already.