Camera debugging

Targets iOS
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Jason made it possible to use the camera in iOS apps. Thanks for that Jason !

Maybe my question is a bit far stretched but wouldn’t it be possible to use the frontcamera of a Macbook or iMac to debug?
I mean, it is terrible hard to debug when you have to export it to your iPhone/iPad everytime.
I know you can load an image instead to do some debugging but still …

I wonder how Xcode coders do this. As far as I know this is a limitation of the iOS device emulator so they are also affected by this.
Odd that Apple never added camera support for the iOS emulator at all… shouldn’t be that difficult, not? :slight_smile:

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You’re welcome! I find this frustrating as well and an interesting oversight by Apple. Xcode programmers have the same issues with it that we do but I too think it wouldn’t have been to hard to make it take a picture but only Apple really knows.

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FWIW, there was a short period where they did this with the Bluetooth hardware on a Mac. From what I’ve read, the subtle differences between the Mac and iOS hardware actually made it harder to debug. You’d basically do a bunch of work to get it working in the simulator, but it would still fail on devices.