Question
Can I emulate a mobile device like an iPhone, tablet or Android phone?
Environment
Synthetic Agent >= v4.4
Answer
Yes. The 4.4 Controller includes a dropdown in the Job Editor. Older Controllers can enable it through a backdoor:
Device Emulation
'''yml
deviceEmulationProfile:
name: "iPhone7"
description: "iPhone 7 - iOS - 375x667x2"
userAgent: "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU OS 10_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/14A5297c Safari/602.1"
width: 375
height: 667
pixelRatio: 2.0
touch: true
'''
driver.get("http://www.mysite.com")
If you don't know by heart the pixel ratio of the Galaxy S8 or the user agent of an iPad, we have you covered. Here is a cheat sheet for you:
Device Emulation list
'''yml
deviceEmulationProfile:
name: "iPhone7"
description: "iPhone 7 - iOS - 375x667x2"
userAgent: "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU OS 10_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/14A5297c Safari/602.1"
width: 375
height: 667
pixelRatio: 2.0
touch: true
'''
'''yml
deviceEmulationProfile:
name: "iPhone7Plus"
description: "iPhone 7 Plus - iOS - 414x736x3"
userAgent: "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU OS 10_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/14D27 Safari/602.1"
width: 414
height: 736
pixelRatio: 3.0
touch: true
'''
'''yml
deviceEmulationProfile:
name: "iPhoneSE"
description: "iPhone SE - iOS - 320x568x2"
userAgent: "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU OS 10_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/10A525 Safari/602.1"
width: 320
height: 568
pixelRatio: 2.0
touch: true
'''
'''yml
deviceEmulationProfile:
name: "iPad3"
description: "iPad - iOS - 1024x768x2"
userAgent: "Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 10_3_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/603.1.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/10A523 Safari/602.1"
width: 1024
height: 768
pixelRatio: 2.0
touch: true
'''
'''yml
deviceEmulationProfile:
name: "Pixel"
description: "Pixel - Android - 411x731x2.6"
userAgent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.1.2; Pixel Build/N2G47O) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.3029.83 Mobile Safari/537.36"
width: 411
height: 731
pixelRatio: 2.63
touch: true
'''
'''yml
deviceEmulationProfile:
name: "PixelXL"
description: "Pixel XL - Android - 411x731x3.5"
userAgent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.1.2; Pixel XL Build/N2G47O) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.3029.83 Mobile Safari/537.36"
width: 411
height: 731
pixelRatio: 3.5
touch: true
'''
'''yml
deviceEmulationProfile:
name: "PixelC"
description: "Pixel C - Android - 1280x900x3.5"
userAgent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0; Pixel C Build/NRD90M; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/52.0.2743.98 Safari/537.36"
width: 1280
height: 900
pixelRatio: 2.0
touch: true
'''
'''yml
deviceEmulationProfile:
name: "GalaxyS8"
description: "Galaxy S8 - Android - 360x740x4.0"
userAgent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0; SAMSUNG SM-G950F Build/NRD90M) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/5.2 Chrome/51.0.2704.106 Mobile Safari/537.36"
width: 360
height: 740
pixelRatio: 4.0
touch: true
'''
'''yml
deviceEmulationProfile:
name: "HiDPI"
description: "HiDPI laptop - Windows - 1024x768x2.0"
width: 1024
height: 768
pixelRatio: 2.0
touch: false
'''
