The hard part of testing a hardware-talking mobile app isn't the app. It's getting a real BLE device in front of code running inside an emulator.
activev0.2.1
MacPhone
A native macOS device lab that bridges a real Bluetooth LE device into an emulator.
MacPhone runs and controls many Android emulators and iOS simulators from one Mac, and bridges a real Bluetooth LE device straight into an emulator. It mirrors the full GATT tree onto the emulator's virtual controller so on-device apps see the real services, characteristics, and advertisement with no dongle.
A SwiftUI app that manages AVDs and Xcode simulators, connects to a physical BLE device over CoreBluetooth, mirrors its full GATT tree, and re-broadcasts it on the Android emulator's netsim controller via a Bumble virtual peripheral, forwarding reads, writes, and notifications both ways.
Developer setup
clone
git clone https://github.com/jx-grxf/MacPhone.git && cd MacPhoneHighlights
- Manages Android emulators (AVDs) and Xcode iOS simulators in parallel from one panel.
- Bridges a real BLE device into the emulator over CoreBluetooth, mirroring the full GATT tree.
- Forwards reads, writes, and notifications both ways, so the app under test sees the real hardware.
- Keeps sessions clean: disconnects stale clients and tears the bridge down with its parent process.