Is there Camera Device Simulation in iOS Simulators?

Question

Android emulators can simulate Camera device (see screenshot) For example I can test how my video recording module works:

What about iOS-Simulators? When I try to run my app which uses camera I get the next error

Thread 5: Fatal error: Unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value

at line

let videoDeviceInput = try AVCaptureDeviceInput(device: defaultVideoDevice!)

so no simulated devices are available for iOS-Simulators?

Answer 1

According to Apple documentation, using camera with Simulator is not supported:

The following hardware is not supported in Simulator:

• Ambient light sensor

• Audio input, except for using Siri by choosing Hardware > Siri.

• Barometer

• Bluetooth

• Camera

• Motion support (accelerometer and gyroscope)

• Proximity sensor

Answer 2

There is one known workaround which could be useful sometimes: https://github.com/YuigaWada/iCimulator

But it does not work with 3-rd party libs like WebRTC though...