| --- |
| title: 'Testing on iOS' |
| linkTitle: 'Testing on iOS' |
| --- |
| |
| Before setting Skia up for automated testing from the command line, please |
| follow the instructions to run Skia tests (_dm_, _nano-bench_) with the |
| mainstream iOS tool chain. See the |
| [quick start guide for ios](/docs/user/build/). |
| |
| iOS doesn't lend itself well to compiling and running from the command line. |
| Below are instructions on how to install a set of tools that make this possible. |
| To see how they are used in automated testing please see the bash scripts used |
| by the buildbot recipes: |
| <https://github.com/google/skia/tree/main/platform_tools/ios/bin>. |
| |
| ## Installation |
| |
| The key tools are |
| |
| - libimobiledevice <http://www.libimobiledevice.org/>, |
| <https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice> |
| |
| - ios-deploy <https://github.com/phonegap/ios-deploy> |
| |
| Follow these steps to install them: |
| |
| - Install Brew at <http://brew.sh/> |
| - Install _libimobiledevice_ (Note: All these are part of the _libimobiledevice_ |
| project but packaged/developed under different names. The _cask_ extension to |
| _brew_ is necessary to install _osxfuse_ and _ifuse_, which allows to mount |
| the application directory on an iOS device). |
| |
| ``` |
| brew install libimobiledevice |
| brew install ideviceinstaller |
| brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask |
| brew install Caskroom/cask/osxfuse |
| brew install ifuse |
| ``` |
| |
| - Install node.js and ios-deploy |
| |
| ``` |
| $ brew update |
| $ brew install node |
| $ npm install ios-deploy |
| ``` |
