Hello,
For a school project they ask me to build a phone app and I then need to send a link to my examiner.
I am done building the app but when I publish it and open it on my laptop, it is displayed as a responsive web page, taking advantage of the whole width of the browser.
It has been possible to display apps embedded within a phone frame: Glide App Examples: Admirable No-Code Startups Built with Glide
Is it still possible?
If they open it on a phone it will be a phone app. Tell the examiner that you made it better by allowing your app to be responsive so it can work well on desktop as well as mobile devices
You are very strange and contrary to how an application adapts to the device it should be. However, this is not impossible, namely drag the size of your browser to small and you will see a large phone display. 
Hi Jeff, thank you for your answer. I am aware of this very simple and logic solution. However a teacher won’t see things this way so I need to be certain that the functionality I’m asking about was actually discontinued and that what they’re asking is “no can do” anymore.
The phone emulator that you see on the published apps in the link you provided are for the older Classic apps. You can no longer create Classic apps in glide.
Glide used to have two separate products. One was Classic Apps which were mobile only, and the other was Pages (now New Apps or simply called Apps) which were meant for desktop devices. Glide later combined everything into one single product simply called Apps which are reactive and reflow based on screen size to work on both desktop and mobile devices.
You could embed a glide app into something that emulates a phone on a desktop screen, but that requires at least a business plan and contact with glide support to enable that feature.
In short, no you won’t be able to show the app in a phone emulator unless you upgrade to business or show the examiner how it looks in the builder.
Thank you!
You can try and launch the Glide App in a web browser and then use Developer Tools in Chrome to make the display dimensions a Mobile Phone. The Glide Page will then rescale itself in mobile formatting.
I use the Mobile Simulator Chrome extension
You can simulate multiple devices (Android/iOS, including tablets) and looks very realistic. It even allows to do screencasts in GIF format.
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