Jeff LaMarche just posted about this on his blog. There's an iPhone app + SDK out that'll let you send multi-touch and accelerometer input to the simulator. There's already a free library that let's you use the device's accelerometer, but I haven't seen anything for multi-touch. It's $4 until the 4th. Then it starts going up in powers of two until the 16th, when it reaches its final price of $32. http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/08/isimulate.html http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=298417671 Someone in the comments said he made something that will do the same, and is free, and that there's a link to it on the SIO2 forums, but I've been searching there and can't find anything.
I'm trying this out now, and while it basically works (note that it doesn't appear to work for a lot of UIKit stuff), the input stream can cut out for a few frames. My wifi connection is pretty solid with barely any traffic, so I'm thinking the app has a few kinks to work out. Too bad it doesn't work over USB.
Actually here is a good starting point. http://code.google.com/p/accelerometer-simulator It would appear it is only setup for accelerometer right now but it is trivial to add touch and video frame buffering back to the device. Unity did this right when they did their remote app, they send a low quality video feed back to the device. This way you work on the device just as the application is really running on it, does not look fantastic but really really nice for testing.
If you're using SIO2, look at Tutorial131 and 132. It's a client/server approach to sending multitouch/accelerometer events over a socket interface. It's not a general purpose approach but works well for SIO2 based apps. --yarri
Awesome app, bought it! Works pretty nice, though it looks like it's skipping some events. But that's enough for testing and making videos.
Yes, I added touch to this code without any trouble. You can just tack the touch events on the end of the accelerometer message.
