[TIMOB-24481] Add ability to run app on simulator/device without re-building
| GitHub Issue | n/a |
|---|---|
| Type | New Feature |
| Priority | n/a |
| Status | Open |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
| Affected Version/s | n/a |
| Fix Version/s | n/a |
| Components | iOS, Tooling |
| Labels | cb-tooling, cli, titanium |
| Reporter | Brenton House |
| Assignee | Chris Barber |
| Created | 2017-03-10T19:09:12.000+0000 |
| Updated | 2017-03-13T15:59:21.000+0000 |
Description
{quote}As a developer,
I want to be able to publish/execute the last successful build to my simulator/device without rebuilding,
So that I can more quickly test apps and features.{quote}
A lot of times, developers have multiple apps that they might be testing (with or without LiveView) and they want a way to quickly test or start an app without having to rebuild.
I think having a command like "run" and an options like "--skip-build" would get us much closer to this.
Sounds interesting! So we would just invoke the sim control command to launch the Simulator? [~cbarber], this could be a cool idea!
I'm not sure if it is more complicated when using LiveView. Can it just restart the LiveView server when it invokes the sim control command?
We talked about doing this a long time ago. I liked the idea. Back then we were using
ios-simwhich had very limited functionality. Now thatioslibusessimctl, this should be possible. Sort of related, I had the idea of keeping the last successful build which we kind of do today. The only difference is we would place the built app in a sterile directory. Then we could decouple the build from install/run. Install/run would just grab the last successful build and give it a go. LiveView's architecture is going to dramatically change, so I'm not sure how it's going to work. Part of the problem is we instrument the app with a bunch of LiveView code, so we can't enable/disable LiveView without doing a build. Perhaps that's something we should fix too. I'd like to see LiveView baked into the platform code and not injected into the first line ofapp.js. But then again, I'd like LiveView to be more live and expose more runtime inspection.