No Photos in iPhone Simulator. How to add photos?

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• safa_uk Posts: 6New Users

  August 2008 edited August 2008

  I had the same problem and its because I clicked on the "Clear iPhone Cache and Content" but it seems to get rid of everything,
  
  all you need to do is just re install the whole of xcode again, you don't need to uninstall first just install over previous and the images will be back on the iPhone simulator.
  
  the good thing as well is that you dont loose any of your xcode settings.

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• hijinks Posts: 75Registered Users

  August 2008 edited August 2008

  I got this from a IRC chat room. All the directorys and file names are case sensitive. So when I use. JPG I mean use JPG not jpg.
  
  Place your images in
  
  ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/User/Media/DCIM/100APPLE
  
  Create the 100APPLE if it is not there
  
  Rename your files like
  
  IMG_0000.JPG
  IMG_0001.JPG
  IMG_0002.JPG
  
  That will put them in the photo album. You do not see thumbnails though. I haven't figured that out.. I was told make copies and name them THM file types but i didn't get it to work.. but its better then re-installing.

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• DevTeamOfOne Posts: 361Registered Users

  August 2008 edited August 2008

  you could just access the net via the web browser in the simulator.
  
  find an image.
  
  Hold your click on it.
  
  it will popup asking if you want to save an image to your library.
  
  Do so.
  
  Tada.

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• cacaodev Posts: 17Registered Users

  August 2008 edited August 2008

  Sorry but what does "hold the click" means in the simulator ?
  
  -TX-

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• Jeremy1026 Posts: 1,094Registered Users

  August 2008 edited August 2008

  cacaodev wrote: »

  Sorry but what does "hold the click" means in the simulator ?
  
  -TX-

  
  I would assume it means click but don't release the mouse button.

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• Kent Posts: 3New Users

  November 2008 edited November 2008

  The Safari method also gets you thumbnails.

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• scottiphone Posts: 802Registered Users

  November 2008 edited November 2008

  Just drag your own photos to safari on the iphone.
  Press and hold to save them.

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• hemalimojidra Posts: 12Registered Users

  November 2008 edited November 2008

  make new application on iphone in sdk.
  
  and make UIImage objects of your images which you want to see in your iphone
  
  put this in applicationDidFinishLonching function
  
  UIImage * sShot = [UIImage imageWithName:@"imageName.jpg"];
  UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(sShot, nil, nil, nil);
  
  
  This two line will save your imageName.jpg image file in your iphone similator.
  
  do this for your all images..

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• jeff_lamarche Posts: 420Registered Users

  November 2008 edited November 2008

  OfCodeAndMen(); » Blog Archive » Adding pictures to the Simulator

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• City41 Posts: 88Registered Users

  November 2008 edited November 2008

  scottiphone wrote: »

  Just drag your own photos to safari on the iphone.
  Press and hold to save them.

  
  Exactly. Dragging a photo into the simulator opens it in Safari. Doesn't have to be so difficult people

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• cameron50 Posts: 8New Users

  August 2009 edited August 2009

  How would I reinstall xcode?

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• aryaxt Posts: 570Registered Users

  February 2010 edited February 2010

  thanks this worked, u can also drag and drop images into simulator, and then save them

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• rocotilos Posts: 3,260iPhone Dev SDK Supporter, Registered Users @ @ @ @ @

  February 2010 edited February 2010

  Yep, just drag any image from any where in your mac, into the iphone sim screen. that'll open up the safari inside the simulator. then you click and hold on the image, a actionsheet will pop up and select Save Image. you're done.
  
  for me, i always backup the images, which is under ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/User/Media/DCIM/100APPLE to another folder. So when I do a Reset Settings for iphone sim, i then just copy it back to that place.

  
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• RobinSummerhill Posts: 1New Users

  September 2010 edited September 2010

  Dragging photos into the simulator is OK if you have just one or two. If you need to import more then check out this article. It describes how to do a bulk import of photos with correct generation of thumbnails and updating of the photos database. It works on all versions of the simulator including 4.x.

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• TapTouchClick Bay Area, CAPosts: 679New Users @ @ @

  September 2010 edited September 2010

  I made a quick app that scraped google images and saved the first page all to photos album. Let me see if I can find the project.

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• JohnAvatar™ Posts: 4New Users

  October 2010 edited October 2010

  Someone said it! All you have to do is find your image, or images (I used JPEG's), drag them into the simulator window. Safari will open with your image in the browser window. Left click (if on a MacBook Pro, or use your mouse) on the image, a popup window should open offering for you to save your image. Click on save and your image(s) will be in your Photo app.
  
  That's it! Very simple.
  
  Thanks to all for the clues.... I was wondering how to do this and I was looking for the complicated solution, like dragging images to a Simulator folder somewhere, but you guys pointed me to just dragging images to the simulator window!
  
  Because of that, I've now registered to this site as one of my favorite iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch developer resources.
  
  Thank you,
  John Avatar™

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  October 2010 edited October 2010

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• xpous Posts: 1New Users

  December 2010 edited December 2010

  Is there a way with the SDK to acquire the images from the images in Photo Albums uploaded from iTunes?
  
  
  

  mkroll wrote: »

  Hi all,
  it seems, that the sample photos included in the iPhone Simulator are deleted after resetting the simulator as well.
  
  Is it possible to add images to the simulator again in order to test an application using a UIImagePicker?
  
  Thanks,
  Michael.

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• dany_dev Posts: 4,696Tutorial Authors, Registered Users @ @ @ @ @

  December 2010 edited December 2010

  xpous wrote: »

  Is there a way with the SDK to acquire the images from the images in Photo Albums uploaded from iTunes?

  
  no, you need to copy it on the right simulator directory.

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• JohnAvatar™ Posts: 4New Users

  December 2010 edited December 2010

  I testing this out, but yeah, as someone said, open up the Apple iOS simulator and drag an image to the simulator window (iPad, or iPhone/Touch), then click on that image, hold it and you will be asked to save it. That's it!
  
  Pretty simple.

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