{"id":29395,"date":"2020-07-01T16:40:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T20:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29395"},"modified":"2020-07-01T16:40:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T20:40:21","slug":"sim-genie-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/01\/sim-genie-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Sim Genie 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.curtisherbert.com\/sim-genie\/\">Curtis Herbert<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.curtisherbert.com\/sim-genie\/\"><p>Sim Genie is a Mac app that is built for those of us that spend our days in Xcode. Apple has been adding a lot of hidden capabilities to the Xcode simulator, but they haven&rsquo;t been making those capabilities particularly easy-to-use or discoverable.<\/p><p>So I got to thinking: the simulator can do a lot of things now a days, and I&rsquo;d save a lot of time and avoid many annoyances if those things were more easily exposed. What would an app look like that really took a serious go at making a proper product out of the simulator? One that didn&rsquo;t just focus on the raw capabilities of the simulator, but the workflows that could be built around it?<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>I&rsquo;m charging a one-time fee for the app, there is no recurring revenue here unless I go the 2.0 upgrade-pricing route.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Sim Genie has to use the Xcode command line tools, and some other terminal goodies, to work. And that kinda stuff ain&rsquo;t exactly sandbox-friendly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simgenie.app\/\">Sim Genie<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/simgenie.app\/\">\n<p>Grab marketing-ready screen recordings right from the simulator.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Apply status bars without adding custom code, or needing real hardware.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Debug how your app responds to push notifications earlier in development, without deploying to device or setting up a push server.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure your deep links aren&rsquo;t breaking the app&rsquo;s state; trigger them at any time to ensure your app responds nicely.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curtis Herbert: Sim Genie is a Mac app that is built for those of us that spend our days in Xcode. Apple has been adding a lot of hidden capabilities to the Xcode simulator, but they haven&rsquo;t been making those capabilities particularly easy-to-use or discoverable.So I got to thinking: the simulator can do a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-07-01T20:40:25Z","apple_news_api_id":"02344236-c5ac-4241-ad06-5ee3355d4675","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-07-01T20:40:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AAjRCNsWsQkGtBl7jNV1GdQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,75,31,30,32,1666,71,1074,53,1893,282,1958,1959,1310,226],"class_list":["post-29395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-developertool","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-15","tag-programming","tag-push-notifications","tag-sandboxing","tag-screen-recording","tag-screenshots","tag-sim-genie","tag-simulator","tag-universal-links","tag-xcode"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29396,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29395\/revisions\/29396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}