Saturday, January 17, 2015

UIKit Debug Mode

UIKit has hidden, useful debug flags for gesture/touch/animation logs, enable "InternalBuild" mode to switch them on.

fishhook

fishhook is a very simple library that enables dynamically rebinding symbols in Mach-O binaries running on iOS in the simulator and on device. This provides functionality that is similar to using DYLD_INTERPOSE on OS X. At Facebook, we've found it useful as a way to hook calls in libSystem for debugging/tracing purposes (for example, auditing for double-close issues with file descriptors).

Towards declarative touch interactions Slalom

A system with prototype implementation for concisely describing and implementing a class of touch interactions.

Friday, January 2, 2015

Xcode Consolation

Tips on using the Xcode debugging console (i.e. LLDB), notably on using regular expressions to add lots of breakpoints to trace execution.