ios-sim
brew install ios-sim
v9.0.0
Apache-2.0
Command-line application launcher for the iOS Simulator
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Runtime dependencies
Links
- https://github.com/ios-control/ios-sim
- GitHub: ios-control/ios-sim
- Brew formula source: Formula/i/ios-sim.rb
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