Simulators V/S Emulators

Eg:IOS Simulator

 As per my understading about Simulators V/S Emulators

Simulator is a less complex application that simulates internal behaviour of a device, but does not emuilate hardware and does not work over the real operating system

Simulators are written in high level languages.

Simulators may be created by the device manufacturer or by some other company

Simulator is just a partial re-implementation of the orginal software

Simulators can be difficult for debugging purpose


Emulators is an application that emulates real mobile device software, hardware and operating systems, allowing us to test and debug our applications.

Emulator are more suitable for debugging .

Emulator comes as a complete reimplementation of the orginal software.

Emulator is usaully provided by device manufacturers.

Eg:Andriod(skd)Emulator