For most developers, the TV is across the room, and while you could get a really long USB type C cable to debug your apps in Xcode, sometimes that’s just not practical every time you need to do some debugging on your apps.įor those times when developers need to quickly Build and Run an Apple TV app, Xcode will open the compiled app inside of the tvOS simulator, which works identically to the iOS simulator that has been around since the dawn of time 1.
Last year, Apple introduced tvOS, a great new platform to develop for, but this new platform presents some interesting scenarios when developers need to test on an actual Apple TV. Subscribe Using the Apple TV Siri Remote with Xcode tvOS Simulator
