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How to emulate different mobiles for free (18)

01-29-2014 06:08 AM #1 kamaleon (Member)
How to emulate different mobiles for free

Hello,

I found this emulator from Google quite useful and it is even free

https://developers.google.com/chrome...bile-emulation

You just have to install a new version of chrome called Chrome Canary and use its dev tools. I now have two versions of chrome installed with no problem at all.

Hope that helps

01-29-2014 07:43 AM #2 karim0028 (Member)

the emulation i see in this is different than what i see in browserstack.... My LP looks fine in browserstack, in this emulator is doesnt.... Which should i believe?

01-29-2014 07:57 AM #3 kamaleon (Member)

I have not tried browserstack to be able to tell you, but most of the LPs I check around the web with Chrome's mobile emulation look correct.

Are you doing some fancy stuff? Have you tried checking the LP with your own mobile and comparing with the tools?

01-29-2014 08:02 AM #4 karim0028 (Member)

my mobile (iphone5) and browserstack match up... With this emulator they dont... I always check with my iphone 5

01-29-2014 08:55 AM #5 kamaleon (Member)

Well then don't use it, I just wanted to help

01-29-2014 10:38 AM #6 karim0028 (Member)

i just ran into protofluid.com as well.... Good to look at, but also seems different than browserstack.com; at this point i dont know why they are different....

01-29-2014 04:08 PM #7 caurmen (Administrator)

Browserstack, as I understand it, is doing rather more sophisticated emulation than Chrome or similar things. I don't know the details but I do know that Browserstack is more often 100% accurate than any other emulation option I've tried.

My usual approach is to do quick-and-dirty tests using Chrome, but if I really want to get something 100% right, I use Browserstack.

01-29-2014 09:30 PM #8 olympus_max (Member)

The chrome emulation is also really nice to snoop on mobile ads. Just pop that puppy into an android or iphone and go crazy. I found it to be really handy for that. I did notice the iphone discrepancies as well though.

01-29-2014 09:53 PM #9 kamaleon (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by olympus_max View Post
The chrome emulation is also really nice to snoop on mobile ads. Just pop that puppy into an android or iphone and go crazy. I found it to be really handy for that. I did notice the iphone discrepancies as well though.
Could you show a page with these discrepancies? Or is it one of your LPs?

01-29-2014 10:44 PM #10 olympus_max (Member)

I was playing around with it yesterday on my site/LP's, but it seems to be working now . How about that! Kinda strange. The resolution was messed up yesterday though. I'm not sure what changed.

02-15-2014 01:22 PM #11 auditor (Member)

I 've tried these two emulators, but neither have iPhone5 right. Which is very annoying. For the other screens & phones it works great.

http://ami.responsivedesign.is/

http://www.responsinator.com/

02-15-2014 05:08 PM #12 kamaleon (Member)

Have you tried the one I gave in my first post for iphone?

02-15-2014 05:27 PM #13 dynamicsoul (Member)

http://www.springbox.com/mobilizer/


another handy one

02-15-2014 08:19 PM #14 auditor (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by kamaleon View Post
Have you tried the one I gave in my first post for iphone?
not yet, will let you know

02-15-2014 09:08 PM #15 kamaleon (Member)

No need to install another chrome, I can also emulate mobile with my regular chrome

02-22-2014 11:28 PM #16 mykeyfocus (Member)

What i do is make a simple php file with various sizes of iframes in, so you edit your lander, click refresh, bam, see what it instantly looks like in a dozen or more resolutions simple-isms.

02-24-2014 03:32 AM #17 gosu22 (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by mykeyfocus View Post
What i do is make a simple php file with various sizes of iframes in, so you edit your lander, click refresh, bam, see what it instantly looks like in a dozen or more resolutions simple-isms.
What I like about Chrome's emulator is that you can quickly check portrait & landscape to optimize your Mobile LP for both. It's a single button click

02-24-2014 06:05 AM #18 kamaleon (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by gosu22 View Post
What I like about Chrome's emulator is that you can quickly check portrait & landscape to optimize your Mobile LP for both. It's a single button click
I guess you mean enabling this for Landscape:

Emulation > Screen > CSS Media > Print

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