Mobile-Friendly Components

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Mobile-Friendly Components

Making your Lightning web components mobile-friendly can help you reach a wider audience as more Salesforce users do business on their phones. Although there’s a chance that a component you create is already mobile-friendly, it’s still worth checking as it doesn’t take much more work. In this manner, you can be guaranteed that none of your consumers’ problems will be simple to fix. Fortunately, you can use mobile simulators to directly view, test, and even debug your Lightning web components on iOS or Android smartphones from your desktop.

Let’s discuss adding these tools to your development environment and utilizing them while developing.

 

Create Your iOS Mobile Simulator Settings

Only macOS supports the iOS Mobile Simulator. If you don’t have a macOS computer, move on to the next step in the project to install the Android emulator by scrolling down and clicking Verify Step.

The iOS simulator in Xcode, the integrated development environment (IDE) for iOS mobile applications, can be used to test your Lightning web components. Once configured, the iOS simulator can be used directly from the Visual Studio Code environment, which is covered later.

  1. Install the most recent version of Xcode. There is no need to reinstall Xcode if you already have it.
  2. Launch Xcode.
  3. Select Xcode | Open Developer Tool | Simulator from the menu bar. A new programme called Simulator launches and shows a smartphone screen.
  4. To select the device of your choice, go to File | Open Simulator.
  5. If you want to install the Salesforce app in the following section, you can close Xcode but leave the Simulator window open.

 

Mobile Friendly Mobile Simulator
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Installing Salesforce Mobile App Simulator for iOS

  1. Download the Salesforce Mobile app for iOS simulator from Salesforce Mobile Tools.
  2. Drag the programme file you just extracted into the Simulator window.
  3. Click the recently installed Salesforce app to launch it in Simulator. The app may have been installed on a different app page if it isn’t visible on the first page. To find the app, slide the page with your mouse to reveal more pages.
  4. Enter verification code and click Verify.
  5. To grant the app access to your Salesforce data, click Allow. You’ll get a Welcome to the Mobile App prompt when you’ve logged in.

 

Conclusion

In this way, We can use simulators to create and test mobile-friendly components.

 

To read about other ways to make your components more accessible to users, check out some of my related blogs below!

 

Additional Resources

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