Show HN: iOS SimulatorCamera – use your MacBook camera with iOS simulators

Category: devtools

Tags: ios-simulator, camera, avfoundation

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

SimulatorCamera is a developer tool that enables real camera, video, or screen sharing with iOS simulators by streaming frames over localhost via a custom protocol. It provides a drop-in Swift package with an API mirroring AVCaptureSession, allowing developers to test camera-dependent features in the simulator without a device. This fills a longstanding gap for iOS developers working with Vision, Core ML, and barcode scanning.

Target audience: iOS developers

Repository: https://github.com/Akylas/SimulatorCamera · Swift · MIT

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