JKjklp·Jan 17, 2013Submission
Firebug like debugger for iOS's UIVIews
1 points · Open discussiondomesticcatsoftware
DCIntrospect
Objective-C2012–2013
domesticcatsoftware / DCIntrospect
DCIntrospect
Small library of visual debugging tools for iOS.
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Small library of visual debugging tools for iOS.
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Observed mentions: 2012-08-30 16:41:41 UTC to 2013-07-13 11:52:01 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Aug 2012 | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2012 | 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2012 | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2012 | 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2012 | 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Feb 2013 | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2013 | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 2013 | 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 2013 | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2013 | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 2013 | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesI would highly recommend downloading and installing DCIntrospect[0]. It's designed to let you tweak layout in the simulator, but what it's really useful for is probing the UI in large, complex apps. Need to tweak the font size on a specific element, but you have no idea what that view class is? Enable DCIntrospect, click on the element, log its class name and properties. This has saved me, literally, hundreds of hours of debugging time over the years.
[0] https://github.com/domesticcatsoftware/DCIntrospect
In iOS Development Tips If You're Just starting OutWell, I use the same method until I heard the DCIntrospect library (https://github.com/domesticcatsoftware/DCIntrospect)
In Reader-submitted Objective-C / XCode tips of 2012