1Testing on iOS 2============== 3Before setting Skia up for automated testing from the command line, please 4follow the instructions to run Skia tests (*dm*, *nano-bench*) with the 5mainstream iOS tool chain. See the [quick start guide for ios](../../user/quick/ios). 6 7iOS doesn't lend itself well to compiling and running from the command line. 8Below are instructions on how to install a set of tools that make this possible. 9To see how they are used in automated testing please see the bash scripts 10used by the buildbot recipes: <https://github.com/google/skia/tree/master/platform_tools/ios/bin>. 11 12Installation 13------------ 14The key tools are 15 16* libimobiledevice <http://www.libimobiledevice.org/>, <https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice> 17 18* ios-deploy <https://github.com/phonegap/ios-deploy> 19 20Follow these steps to install them: 21 22* Install Brew at <http://brew.sh/> 23* Install *libimobiledevice* 24 (Note: All these are part of the *libimobiledevice* project but packaged/developed 25 under different names. The *cask* extension to *brew* is necessary to install 26 *osxfuse* and *ifuse*, which allows to mount the application directory on an iOS device). 27 28``` 29brew install libimobiledevice 30brew install ideviceinstaller 31brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask 32brew install Caskroom/cask/osxfuse 33brew install ifuse 34``` 35 36* Install node.js and ios-deploy 37 38``` 39$ brew update 40$ brew install node 41$ npm install ios-deploy 42``` 43