Mobile device testing is necessary, but presents many challenges When you consider that over the past 5 years mobile devices have risen from 0.9% to over 15% of all internet traffic (and that number will continue to climb ( – slide #32)), it’s become increasingly important to make sure that there is at least a basic level of support for mobile users in anything you build. While there are new tools and technologies popping up daily to help make that easier, there are still an incredible number of challenges involved. One of the most common, is finding devices to test your creations with. Even for those of us that tend to collect far more gadgets than the average bear, there are almost certainly a very great number of devices that will not be available to us. There is a recent phenomena of that can definitely offer some help with that (for instance, the here in Denver) but there isn’t always going to be one that is convenient, or even available. When devices simply aren’t available, it’s still important to try to test the best that you can with some fallback options. There are many available options for emulating various mobile devices on a desktop, ranging from some small browser extensions that simply resize your window to match the pixel dimensions of a few devices, to subscription services that offer many more features, to full-blown device simulators available in Xcode or the Android SDK.

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Any of these options are far better than nothing, but there always seems to be a compromise. Most free and lightweight options tend to be lacking in features, the subscription services can be quite pricey, and the 9.6GB footprint of Xcode (on my machine at least) can seem a bit ridiculous, especially if you don’t actually tend to build native iOS or Mac apps. Chrome’s Dev Tools now offer a solution Luckily, as of version 32, Google Chrome has added a rather impressive, and built-in, set of capabilities for Mobile Device Emulation to DevTools. By and large, this new offering addresses all of the compromises I listed above.

There is a rather comprehensive level of functionality as compared to any device emulator, the tools are free and built right into Chrome, and while Chrome can eat up a lot of resources (especially if you tend to open and use as many tabs as I do), it is still much, much lighter than Xcode and is probably one of your primary browsers anyway. Enabling device emulation So, with that bit of Chrome DevTools fanboyism finished, here’s a quick introduction on how to enable and use the new mobile device emulation features. Emulation mode is only really intended to emulate mobile devices and their native browsers.