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Asked: 2026-05-28T03:58:33+00:00

I’m trying to install and launch a compiled MonoTouch application on the iPad simulator

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I’m trying to install and launch a compiled MonoTouch application on the iPad simulator from the terminal. Right now, I am using

mtouch --sdk=5.0 --launchsim=MyApp.app

The application launches, but regardless of the current state of the simulator, it always launches the app on the iPhone simulator, not the iPad simulator, despite the fact that the app in question set up only for iPad. The usage for mtouch suggests that I can pass a value to the --device=VALUE option to specify the type of device to use, but no matter what I put it launches as an iPhone simulator.

My question is, what are the accepted values for this option? Surely something works, because MonoDevelop has no problem launching apps in the right simulator.

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  1. Editorial Team

    What you’re looking for is:

    /Developer/MonoTouch/usr/bin/mtouch --launchsim=MyApp.app --device=2

    Which is the same value as the underlying API being used. That being said it’s not really useful. I’ll look at adding documentation (–help) about this and support for some string value as well.

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