I've got a little problem with my website and ipad/iphones. A certain tag in my css causes problems and I'm unable to check if I've solved the problem. Is there a way to look at my website as if on an ipad while not actually buying an ipad. Is there something like an ipad emulator or something?
You can use web (free) services that provide such functionality. There is a lot of them. For example: http://ipadpeek.com/ or http://mobiletest.me/.
There is also a simple solution that doesn't require any further app installation.
If you're running google Chrome you can enter the developer tools by hitting F12 on a PC and Command+option+I on a Mac.
In the developer tools you have on the top left corner of the screen a mobile device emulator, which you can choose various different models of mobile devices from. not just iPad and iPhone.
Note that you have to refresh the page each time you change a device emulator. Otherwise it won't load with all the characteristics of the current emulation.
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I have been trying to make a responsive website for mobile devices . I have found two ways to test responsive design:
By resizing the window
Using Google Chrome developer's tools
In both of them I get a different view. Which one gives me the right view, as I use font-size and padding in 'em'.
Resizing browser window is not Responsive. While developing Responsive applications the easiest, but yet not perfect, way is using Chrome's Developer tools. Even that may give you different results, because mobile device screens are using not just width/height but also dpi. So 320 iphone6s screen is not going to be perfect match for 320px resized browser or equivalent android device.
Go for chrome developer tools. It's a great way of checking responsiveness. It comes with dimensions of popular mobile and tablet devices. So you can check for a variety of device at once.
Simply resizing the browser is not a right way of checking responsiveness.
Recently I built a page that works fine with both the ways you mentioned. You can check it here.
Let me know if you need any help.
I would say Chrome Dev Tools is the best bet for a local snapshot.
However, if you have access to one or more mobile devices you may want to launch the site on Heroku or another production environment and view it from the actual device.
An iPhone 6 for example, I find Chrome does not take into account the address bar or bottom nav in safari so things can be slightly off from the Chrome Dev view of iPhone 6.
I have not launched the website yet. All the mobile testing websites I have found on the internet are asking for my URL. Is there any way to test a website that has not been launched yet?
You can use Chrome's responsive mode:
Go to DevTools (Ctrl+Shift+I)
Click the phone/tablet icon in topbar (2nd from the left) or Ctrl+Shift+M
Then you can resize website or select sample device from menu.
You can check it on more number of mobile simulators with chrome Device Toolbar that is inside Developer Tools. it looks great with many inbuild mobile device simulators. (That is second left mobile like icon on the inspect element).
Once you click on the icon you can switch through devices using the top device selector. You can even change width and height of the device and zoom it accordingly
You could try multiple extensions from chrome web store such as
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/responsive-web-design-tes/objclahbaimlfnbjdeobicmmlnbhamkg?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon if you are using chrome. Type "responsive" in search and you will get various extensions. You can also do ctrl+shift+m.
If using firefox you can do Ctrl+shift+m and you can view your website in responsive mode.
Also you can try resizing the browser as a third alternative.
If you are using Chrome then go through this. For Interner Explorer try this method.
My suggestion is to use Google Chrome and then inspect by right clicking on your webpage. Click on Responsive icon in the menu bar (shown in attached image) and adjust screen size.
You need to write MEDIA QUERIES for making your page responsive for different screen sizes.
use ngrok. It will expose the local/dev servers using their services. This command line tool will give you a resolvable url.
To use
$ ngrok http 80
will expose the web server running on port 80.
ngrok by #inconshreveable
(Ctrl+C to quit)
Session Status online
Version 2.2.4
Region United States (us)
Web Interface http://127.0.0.1:4040
Forwarding http://dbg6f82d.ngrok.io -> localhost:80
Forwarding https://dbf8f82d.ngrok.io -> localhost:80
This will be accessible across the internet.
I'm trying to test which keyboard type comes up by default for certain inputs on iOS and Android. Is there a way to bring up the on screen keyboard in Chrome devtools phone simulator?
So far I have tested the iOS version of my website by running the xcode simulator and pointing to my website but it would be really convenient to use devtools.
Update: 🙁 Virtual keyboard support is deprecated in Chrome 68+; this answer no longer works.
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You can view the standard keyboard for the Nexus 5X device for the portrait or landscape view:
However, you can't interact with it, nor does it change based on the context it is called from. I found by inspecting DevTools that it is simply an image file overlayed onto an SVG. There's nothing smart going on with these profiles. It's just useful to look at how the app responds to the reduced space.
To test the proper behaviour of keyboards with context, I would just recommend using XCode and Android emulators, or better still use real devices.
See: Test Responsive and Device-specific Viewports
Chrome now has a very helpful "device mode" that can be used to preview a web page as it might appear on a host of devices. Very useful. I was wondering... is there a way to enter/exit device mode via JS run from the page itself. For some of what I do it would be handy to let people preview screens on different devices without having to explain that they can do this via the button on Chrome Developer tools. Googling has not yielded any obvious ways to accomplish this - perhaps it is not possble?ch
I have started coding for mobile browsers (i.e. iPad, Galaxy Tab, etc). For a starter, I don't have budgets to get all the tablets for testing (I wish I do :D). Anyway, I am looking for a decent mobile browser simulators. I have looked into Ripple (only works in Chrome), MobiOne, and PhoneGap simulator. But all of these are not that up to par. Can someone recommended a decent one? and it will be great if it is also open source.
Thanks in advance
A good list of emulators and simulators are here: http://www.mobilexweb.com/emulators
For iPad, the only simulator I know of is built into XCode when you compile or run. You have an option of previewing in iPhone or iPad, and though the screen is hard to read, it's manageable if you click on 2x button.
If you're developing for android, the Android SDK has one.
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
if you just want to quickly view how a webpage would render at various mobile device resolutions then here is a nice little webpage...
http://synthphone.com
you can even link directly to a url via query strings. for example, here is one that should load the Sencha Touch 2 carousel. Use your mouse like a finger to slide around the images etc.
http://www.synthphone.com/?u=http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/touch/examples/production/carousel/index.html
have fun!