Testing location services on device

Question

I am trying to test background location changing using startMonitoringSignificantLocationChanges In the simulator, I can enable Freeway Drive mode and I get regular calls to locationManager:didUpdateLocations: which is great.=, the problem is debugging when the app is terminated and it's meant to be woken up. I have changed the RUN scheme to "Wait for my.app to launch" and again this works good as the debugger waits for the app to become active. The downside is, I can't view any NSLogs and the simulator doesn't have a way to view the Device Logs. So I moved over to device as I thought at least I can view the Device Logs, however the device doesn't have a Freeway Drive mode. I've created a .gpx file like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gpx version="1.1" creator="Xcode"> 
    <wpt lat="37.331705" lon="-122.030237"></wpt>
    <wpt lat="37.331705" lon="-122.030337"></wpt>
    <wpt lat="37.331705" lon="-122.030437"></wpt>
    <wpt lat="37.331705" lon="-122.030537"></wpt>
    <wpt lat="37.331705" lon="-122.031437"></wpt>
    <wpt lat="37.331705" lon="-122.031537"></wpt>
    <wpt lat="37.331705" lon="-122.031437"></wpt>
    <wpt lat="37.331705" lon="-122.032537"></wpt>
    <wpt lat="37.331705" lon="-122.032437"></wpt>
    <wpt lat="37.331705" lon="-122.032537"></wpt>
    <wpt lat="36.331705" lon="-122.030437"></wpt>
    <wpt lat="36.331705" lon="-122.030537"></wpt>
</gpx>

And in the RUN scheme set it as the default location. I can see that the coordinates of the device are changing as I fly through the default maps app, however none of the locationManager delegate methods are being called like they where in the simulator.

Any help appreciated on how I can test this.

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use something like this https://github.com/futuretap/FTLocationSimulator. Or modify it to better fill your needs(my answer from here)

Edit

(I'm one of the authors) https://github.com/Azoft/FakeGPSUtility - can be helpful too.