How Quickly to Test Native Android and iPhone Apps

By Max Katz

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September 7, 2011 03:21 PM EDT

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If you hit hit finished autochthonous ambulatory app utilization on Android or iPhone (iOS) then you belike undergo that investigating autochthonous apps is not that simple. On the another hand, investigating tralatitious Web applications is pretty straightforward: Launch a Web browser, and you wager meet how the covering entireness and how it looks. Read on and I will exhibit how to effort a autochthonous app in a similarly direct style after considering assorted alternatives.

Option 1: Installing the app on the ambulatory device
This choice is enthusiastic in that you crapper effort the app on the actualised device. However, effort the app on the figure crapper be rattling instance consuming. And, for apiece investigating iteration, the app would hit to be built, dispatched (or copied) to the phone, installed, and launched on the device. While you intend to effort on the actualised device, the impact is rattling slow. Just envisage if you requirement to attain meet a diminutive modify in the app.

Option 2: Using figure emulators/simulators
Getting the app on a figure emulator is simpler than effort the app on the actualised device. However, today the app is not proven on the actualised device, so you haw not be effort meet the aforementioned activity or look-and-feel that you would intend on the actualised device. Now, this is more of an Android difficulty than an iOS problem. The Android emulator runs a bare-bones Android version. Most Android phones from HTC, Motorola, and Samsung hit their own, slightly restricted builds of Android (even the aforementioned covering crapper be slightly assorted on assorted devices). Another problems with emulators (mostly Android) is that they are commonly such slower than the actualised devices, for manifest reasons. While the iOS simulator is pretty fast, the Android emulator is notoriously slow.

The Best Option: Launching the app on the figure without installing
I study this effort move the fastest and most straightforward. It doesn't order instalment the app on the figure apiece time, but you ease intend to effort on the device. This move uses the Tiggr Mobile Tester app on the figure patch the ambulatory apps themselves are matured using Tiggr Mobile Apps Builder.

This inquirer app exclusive needs to be installed once. The Android edition is here and the iOS edition is acquirable as an open source version. The app is kinda simple. After language in to your Tiggr Mobile Apps Builder account, it will exhibit a itemize of every ambulatory apps (native and Web) created in your Tiggr account. Here is how it looks:

The most engrossing part? Clicking (or tapping) on some send will start the app. Make some changes to the app in Tiggr? Save the changes, and utter the app in Tiggr Mobile Tester. You today intend the newborn version, with every the changes. With this move we intend the prizewinning of everything. We don't requirement to establish the app apiece time, the app is proven on the actualised figure and terminal but not least, it's rattling fast.

Still not convinced? Then clew up for Tiggr, create your prototypal ambulatory app, establish Tiggr Mobile Tester (Android or iOS) and effort the app.