Open a Virtual Mobile Device

Open a manual Mobile Studio session for an emulator / simulator

1. Navigate to Mobile Devices → Virtual Devices:

   

2. Select an emulator/simulator:

   

3. Once an emulator/simulator is selected, click Open.

Running an Appium Test with a Virtual Device

To point an Appium Test to run against a virtual device, add @emulator='true' to deviceQuery. Whether it picks an iOS or Android will be dependent on how the rest of your query is built.

Here are a few examples:

Select any available iOS Simulator:

setCapability("deviceQuery", "@os='ios' and @emulator='true'")

Select any available Android Emulator:

setCapability("deviceQuery", "@os='android' and @emulator='true'")

See our Device Queries page to learn more about constructing your own Device Queries.

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By default, @emulator is set to false