Adding photos to the iPhone simulator
Mar 13, 2012
ios
I’m currently building an iOS app that will make use of the device camera. It works well, but since I’m also running this app on the simulator, I want to be able to select pictures from the photo library as well.
However, once I open up a UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary dialog
in the iPhone simulator, I’m presented with the following screen:
Uhm, can I? I haven’t found a way to do so, but there’s an easy workaround for this so that you easily can add photos to your simulator.
Just open up Finder and drag any image you want to add into your simulator. When you see the green plus icon, just release the image. The image will then open up in Safari, like this:
Click the image and keep the mouse button pressed. You now get an option to save the image:
That’s it! If you open up the photo library, you will see the image in your list of saved images:
You can then use it as you see fit in the simulator.
Hope it helps!