How to use Windows Mobile Emulator for Mobile App Testing, Device Emulator Manager
After installing the mobile device emulator, now require to use of Window mobile emulator.
Installation process that could be use to emulate a pocket PC environment without our real purchase mobile hardware. So here we will continue on the discussion of showing the technique for using the emulators.
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| Windows Mobile Emulator |
If we work through the installation procedures that I explained in the previous article, we might have notice that although there are multiple start menus option that are connected to the Windows Mobile 6 SDK, none of those menu option allow us to access the Pocket PC emulator. From what You have been told, Microsoft originally intended to give developer the tool to develop their own Window Mobile Emulator but never intended to give a pre-configure emulator. Something must have change over the time, though, as the Window Mobile 6 SDK includes multiple preconfigured Pocket PC emulator. Those emulator simply are not the accessible via the Start Menu.
So to access the multiple emulator, open the Windows Explorer and the navigate through the file system of PC to \Program Files \ Mobile Devices Emulators \ 1.0. This folder includes a file named DVCEMUMANAGER. Double clicks on such File, and Window Will launch the Device Emulators Manager as shown below image.
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| Device Emulator Manager |
The Device emulators manager provides us accessibility for multiple preconfigured mobile devices emaulator.
To Launch the pointed specific emulator, simply select the emulator which we like to use and then choose the Connect commands from the Action menu. The screens that we view next will vary depend on which emulator us have chosen, but we can see the sample of what one of the emulator look like in the following figure:
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| Emulator Look |
So, Main thing is that we require to know that anything we would normally do with the stylus can now be done with out PC's mouse. There are a few action that require a bit more explained.
So as real world, There are event that occurred in the relation to the mobile devices that have nothing to do with the anything that a user might have click to on the screen. Placing the devices in a cradles is an example of these actions. Trust it or not, the emulators allow us to simulate a wide ranges of external event.
Several external events can be simulated through the manger of device emulator. With the emulator running, right click on the listing for the emulator that we are using in the Device Emulator Manager. When We do, We will see the option to connect, cradle, uncradle, shutdown or the Reset the devices. But If we like to simulate the hard reset, we can find the options for this so on the file menu of emulator.
The File menu of device emulator includes the configure option that is the worth a look. Selecting the Configure options cause Window to Display the Emulators property sheet. This property sheet includes a variety of such tab. Filled with the different -2 configuration options. Some of them which are the more powerful or useful than the other.
The Display tab of Property sheet includes the two option that we tend to very useful. One option permit us to double the size of emulator, as displayed below figure. This option is the great for the visual impair. Another cool option on the Display tab is the Orientation Options. Such allow us to rotate the emulators, which is the best for the working on a portrait style devices in landscape mode only.
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| Emulator Properties |
Network Tab of Property sheet is use for the setting up the connectivity device. By default, emulated mobile device don't have any connectivity to any other thing, but we can use the option find on the Network tab to the bind emulated network adapter to our physical network adapter of PC.
The peripheral tab visible useless at the first, since the majority of the tab is devoted to the mapping serial port. If we see at the bottom of the picture displayed below, however we can look that there are some helpful option on such tabs. We can emulate different -2 battery power level or the emulate the existence of a speaker phone, headset or the car kit.
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| Emulator Device Network |
Final Conclusion:
As you seen, the multiple mobile devices emulator is too much flexible in their abilities. The emulator can not the reproduces every situation found in the real world scenario. But they should be the more than the adequate for the purposes of testing.
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