whats the difference between mobile emulator and simulator?

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whats the difference between mobile emulator and simulator?..

Answer / sudhakarbongarala

The basic difference between a mobile emulator and simulator
are, both of them run on the same machine, where as emulator
runs on simulated mobile environment with the help of cross
compilers, and simulator runs on desktop environment.

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whats the difference between mobile emulator and simulator?..

Answer / debendra

The basic difference between the Simulator and Emulator is,
Simulator runs on Desktop environment and totally Software
related. What ever u test on Device , u can do in simulator
also, but this is n0t 100% sure.

Emulator is both Software and Hardware. here u can test
the device 100%.

2. In Printer device simulator does not support the
Physical interface, ex removing the cartriges.

But in emulator we can perform the physical interface
related testcases.

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whats the difference between mobile emulator and simulator?..

Answer / vital

The basic difference is Emulator runs for Android OS (Samsung galaxy,htc,motorola,etc,.) but simulator runs for Mac (iOS) iPhone 3g,4,4s,iPod.

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