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Using PhoneView during iOS Development

If you’re debugging an iOS app on-device, and need to access data that you’re storing somewhere within the app’s home directory, just fire up PhoneView and click on the Apps section. Easy!

iOS: Debugging Web Services

Some useful tools & tips for debugging iOS apps which connect to web services:

Debugging in the iPhone Simulator

Debugging On-Device

  • Paros Proxy - free, open source app. In Paros, go to Tools -> Options… select the Local Proxy option. Enter your Mac’s IP address and leave the port at 8080. On your iOS device, go to Settings -> Wi-Fi, select the same network as your Mac and tap the blue button. Set HTTP Proxy to Manual and enter your Mac’s IP address under Server and 8080 for the Port.

Marco.org: Supporting older versions of iOS while using new APIs

marco:

If you wanted your iPhone or iPad app to work with older versions of the OS, or if you wanted to make a universal app that ran on both iPhone and iPad, you need to ensure that the code never tries to call a method or instantiate an object that doesn’t exist on its OS.

(Source: marco)

(Reblogged from marco)

BTLog - Bluetooth NSLog() for iOS Devices

[This is an old post that I’ve brought over from the old vinnycoyne.com blog. I’ve updated the download links to point to the repo over on GitHub]

I’m currently testing & debugging an iOS app, which is logging quite a bit of location-related data using NSLog(). This is fine when I’m tethered to my MacBook Pro, but it’s not so great for testing in the field.

So, rather that lugging around the MBP, I decided to make use of the various iOS devices I have lying around and turn them into a console for NSLog() data. It’s pretty basic right now (and not exactly production-ready), but it works well.

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