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Debugging

A collection of 12 posts

Advanced SwiftUI

Say No to AnyView in SwiftUI iOS Applications

SwiftUI allows developers to use heterogenous view types by making use of AnyView type. AnyView encloses any kind of SwiftUI type into a generic type that can be returned from a function. In this article, we will take a look at, 1. Why developers may want to use AnyView type

Xcode 13 - Create a Symbolic Breakpoint on Method Name

Xcode 13 - Create a Symbolic Breakpoint on Method Name

To improve the workflow and productivity, we need to integrate efficiency into our work stream. Efficiency can either be created with its own tooling or using third-party APIs and improvements. In today's blog post, I am going to talk about new efficiency improvements in Xcode 13 in the form of

low level debugging

Low-level Debugging on iOS using lldb

WWDC16 Session 417 offered a lot of insight into low-level iOS app debugging applicable for both Objective-C and Swift codebase. In this blog post, we will go over some of the improvements offered by new lldb features and see how you can use them for your own personal or work-related

Use Test Repetitions Mode in Xcode to Diagnose and Fix Flaky Tests

Use Test Repetitions Mode in Xcode to Diagnose and Fix Flaky Tests

If you've written unit tests in the past, there is a fairly good chance that you came across the flaky tests. Flaky tests are the ones whose success or failure is unreliable. They might pass today and may fail for some time before reverting back to pass status. They add

Advanced Breakpoint Improvements in Xcode 13 (WWDC 2021)

Advanced Breakpoint Improvements in Xcode 13 (WWDC 2021)

At WWDC21, Apple announced various new breakpoint improvements into Xcode 13. In this post, I will go over them and demonstrate how they can benefit your workflow. Previously, setting up breakpoints triggered them where they were not supposed to get triggered or it took a lot of work to work

Deep dive into Swift memory management with ARC

Deep dive into Swift memory management with ARC

It's been a while since my last post. For past few months I was busy with work, personal life and lot of things happening outside it so couldn't really commit to writing another article. However, I am back now and going to write about Swift and its memory management quirks.

Xcode symbolic breakpoints - Break at method call

Xcode symbolic breakpoints - Break at method call

Today I am going to write about the big advanced debugging feature of LLDB. I am calling it advanced because I myself didn't know about it for a long time. It allows you to add a symbolic breakpoint which will halt the execution at a specific point so that you

Advanced debugging in iOS

Advanced debugging in iOS

Other day I was watching this excellent Session on Advanced debugging with Xcode and LLDB presented at WWDC-2018. My post may be called as a gist of this talk, since this post summarizes the talk and all the examples mentioned in this post are taken from the Apple's video with

Using Charles Proxy for Debugging Network Requests

TIL to how to use Charles proxy on browser and mobile device. Earlier when I wanted to debug network requests on these two platforms, Charles proxy would not catch them because of lack of configuration and my laziness to do appropriate settings. However, as they say you need enough motivation

How I debugged the wrong Google Maps API key problem

Yesterday I started working on my old project. The reason was that I had to do very similar thing at my work. The problem was that I could not re-use the old code unless I would fix the problem. Let's start with problem. I ran the project demo and it

iOS - Autolayout and Resizing UILabel (iOS/Swift)

Last week I had weird issue while applying autolayout rules to UITableViewCell. TableViewCell has two components attached to it. 1. An UIImageView 2. Two variable length UILabels stacked vertically on the top of each other And I wanted tableView cells to look like this, Nice, isn't it? Let's look at

Debugging Autolayout issues in the Xcode

With the release of new iPhone devices in addition to older models iPhone4 and iPhone5, developers are forced to switch to autolayout instead of using manual frames to update the view layouts. As we extensively use autolayout, goof-ups are very much likely to happen. I always miss something or add