I came across this handy utility from the folks at Point-Free, for those times when standard Swift and the Xcode debugger are being a bit too verbose and making debugging hard.
This utility provides a more concise object-to-string dump for your debugging fun.
Even more interestingly, it provides an object diff feature. 🤯
I get so annoyed when I find myself using random websites 🤮 or all different apps 🤷🏻♂️ to do things like format JSON, test regex’s, encode/decode Base64, encode/decode URLs, or convert Unix time strings.
This nifty little Mac app does all the basic things any developer regularly needs natively, locally, and offline. And it’s free if you build it yourself. Or pay for the official build. Up to you.
👉 DevUtils.app – Developer Utilities for macOS
Via iOS Dev Weekly. See also: Mac-assed Mac Apps 😆
Developing features for a large, established app, I often run get slowed down trying to throw together a new screen. You have to find the right spot in the code to update, build the whole app (not just what you changed), log in, and drill down to the right spot to try out your creation. Something’s off? Do it all over again.
Which is why I love the idea of the Playbook library, which is “a library that provides a sandbox for building UI components without having to worry about application-specific dependencies.” Yass! 🤟
Supports both SwiftUI and UIKit.
Via iOS Dev Weekly.
Apple has a really nice utility straightforwardly called the Main Thread Checker. It detect uses of APIs on a background thread that really should be on the main thread.
Updating UI on a thread other than the main thread is a common mistake that can result in missed UI updates, visual defects, data corruptions, and crashes.
And someone has put together a page documenting how to configure the Main Thread Checker for your own specific needs. It’s straightforwardly called Configuring the Main Thread Checker.
👉 Configuring the Main Thread Checker
Enjoy getting rid of some flakey code in your app! Via iOS Dev Weekly.
P.S. There’s another utility from Apple called Thread Sanitizer, to “Audit threading issues in your code”. 🤷🏻♂️
This looks like a great debugging tool if you’re doing some serious CoreData work.
👉 Core Data Lab – View, analyze and track your Core Data app’s data
Core Data Lab offers everything to view and analyze the Core Data database of your app, like a predicate editor, data editor, data change tracker and a built-in web and image content viewer.
Mental Break Town 