The Simulator has no camera: its picker opens on grey and the shutter does nothing. SimBuddy feeds a Mac camera, or your iPhone through Continuity Camera, into the app’s own capture session, with no code added to the app.
Free: 2 camera sessions a day, 30 minutes each.Pro: no daily limit.
The Simulator’s own picker opens on grey. Then the Mac’s camera feeds SimBuddyDemo’s capture session, Apple’s camera picker with editing on, Mirror on and off, and a Run from Xcode with no relaunch.
Open the camera in an app on the Simulator and you get a grey viewfinder. A shutter that takes nothing is a hard way to test a scanner, a profile photo or a video call.
The Camera workspace sits under More in the panel. Pick the app, pick a camera, and start the feed.
Start feed relaunches the app with SimBuddy’s camera bridge. Its AVCaptureSession, preview layer, video data output and photo output work as they do on a device, and so does UIImagePickerController’s camera.
The Mac’s camera follows the app’s. Leave the camera screen and the feed pauses; open it again and the picture is back. Turn on Auto Connect and the feed starts by itself whenever the app opens its camera.
Running from Xcode? Set up SimBuddy Runtime once and Connect to Xcode debug session feeds that Run. No relaunch, and the debugger stays attached.
The Camera workspace has a command for every control, so an agent can start the feed before it walks a scanner or a sign-up photo flow.
$ simbuddy camera statusThe Mac’s cameras, the source, Mirror and the feed.
$ simbuddy camera set --source FaceTime --mirror offThe built-in camera, not mirrored.
$ simbuddy camera start --runtimeJoins your next Run from Xcode.
$ simbuddy camera stopStops the feed.