Running iOS app on a different Mac / simulator

Question

I have built a demo iOS app on my Mac. My client wants to get the executable and run it on his iOS simulator on his Mac so as to give me feedbacks. I have an Apple developer account and I can deploy my app to my iPad / iPhone or distribute it via AppStore. But I don't know how to generate an iOS simulator executable for him. He only wants the iOS simulator executable. Does anyone have tried this before?

P.S. I can't really distribute it via AppStore since it is just a demo app. It is very likely rejected. Plus, I have to send it to him today so I don't think Apple can pass my app within a day.

P.P.S. I can't give him the source code unless he pays me. But it is not possible after a month.

Please help. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You need to send him the Application folder under the iPhone Simulator folder.

You can find it here:

~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/<Simulator-Version>/Applications/

Answer 2

Building upon this answer by @Midhun, for later versions of Xcode (Xcode 6, Xcode 7 and Xcode 8 in my research), the simulators now live here:

~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices

I was actually trying to use an app built on Xcode 8 for iOS8 simulator and get it to run on an ios7 simulator from Xcode 6 on another Mac. I couldn't find out how to simply copy files around but I did manage to copy the Mine.app folder to the other Mac, then install it using

xcrun simctl install 6DC6323C-504C-423F-ACD6-652557B33D48 Mine.app

where you need to replace 6DC6323C-504C-423F-ACD6-652557B33D48 with your simulator device type ID (find using xcrun simctl list devices).

Answer 3

You need to send him the Application folder under the iPhone Simulator folder.

You can find it here:

~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/<Simulator-Version>/Applications/