Local Testing for Mobile Apps

Test your mobile applications with private backend services using Local Testing on Pcloudy.

Local Testing enables you to test mobile apps that communicate with backend services not publicly hosted or are behind a proxy, firewall, or VPN on Pcloudy Live Mobile devices.

When Do You Need Local Testing?

You would need Local Testing to test the following types of mobile applications on Pcloudy Live:

Apps connecting to localhost or locally running backend services
Apps communicating with privately hosted APIs
Apps accessing internal services in secured internal environments

How to Enable Local Testing?

To use Local Testing, you need to install the Pcloudy Desktop Assistant.

For installation and setup instructions, refer to Set up Local Testing in the Pcloudy documentation.

Why Do You Need the Pcloudy Desktop Assistant?

Pcloudy's real mobile devices can test apps that communicate with publicly hosted backend services directly. However, to test apps that need to access backend services that are not publicly accessible, the Pcloudy infrastructure requires a secure network tunnel to reach the private environment where your backend services are hosted.

The Local Testing feature in Pcloudy Live creates this secure network tunnel between your internal network and the Pcloudy mobile device cloud. This allows your mobile apps running on Pcloudy's real devices to communicate with any non-public backend services hosted in your local, staging, or internal environments.

To create this secure tunnel, the Pcloudy Desktop Assistant must be installed on the machine that has access to the private or restricted backend services.

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