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An App Clip is a small part of your iOS app that people open from a QR code, an NFC tag, or a link, without installing the full app. Autosana opens your App Clip with a URL the same way a scan does, then tests it like any other app.
App Clips work on iOS cloud simulators only. Real devices, local runs from the CLI, and Android are not supported.

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Upload your build

Either upload works: Build either one with the steps in Building Your Mobile App for Our Cloud.

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Open the App Clip in a test

Write a step with the URL that your QR code or NFC tag contains:
Before this step, the test starts in the app you uploaded, like any other test: your full app, or your App Clip without a URL. The App Clip then receives the URL as if someone scanned it. A test can open more than one URL, one step each.

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After the App Clip opens

  • Closing and reopening the app act on the App Clip. If the App Clip was closed, reopening it opens it again with the most recent URL.
  • Logs and performance data come from the App Clip.
  • When the test ends, Autosana closes the App Clip. The next test starts in the app you uploaded.
  • App Clip data stays between the tests of one suite run, like your app’s data.
  • In a multi-device test on iOS simulators, each device opens its own App Clip.
You can’t switch back to the full app in the middle of a test.

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