‫So you learned how to launch the app on different simulators and devices. For the majority of the course,
‫I will work with the emulators and there, mostly with the Android emulator simply because Android is
‫the system everyone is able to follow along,
‫iOS apps can only be developed on macOS systems and not every student has a macOS system available.
‫So Android will be the focus of this course or the Android simulator will be the focus I should say,
‫we will nonetheless build apps for both platforms and since we'll work a lot with simulators, you should
‫know how to use them. For the Android simulator,
‫you have this control panel here on the right where you for example can rotate the device.
‫Now important, to also apply the rotation effect here,
‫you need to open your settings, your scroll down, bring up that status bar on the emulator and
‫make sure that device rotation is turned on. With that, by pressing these buttons, you can simulate that
‫the device is rotated and then also confirm that your user interface looks good in landscape mode.
‫Of course in this course, I'll also extensively cover how you can render different user interfaces, different
‫layouts for different device sizes and device orientations.
‫So that is one important thing you can do here,
‫there are other things which will become more useful once we later
‫also work with maps and so on. Here if you click on these three dots, you have even more options of configuring
‫and fine tuning this. On the iOS simulator,
‫you can also rotate the device, you have all your options up here in the toolbar or in this top control
‫bar here.
‫There under hardware, you can also rotate the device or you use one of these shortcuts here and there
‫for example, you can also control the soft keyboard and enable that, disable that, so that you can either
‫use your real keyboard on your MacBook or on your MacOS device
‫once we have some text inputs here or that you use the soft keyboard on the screen. Simply play around
‫with these settings to get a feeling for what you can do there and how you can control these emulators
‫for testing the app in the way you want to test it.