XRay
Xray is viewDebugging tool for iOS, tvOS, watchOS and macOS (by ShawnBaek)
Flex
An in-app debugging and exploration tool for iOS (by FLEXTool)
| XRay | Flex | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | |
| 10 | 13,883 | |
| - | 0.3% | |
| 0.0 | 5.5 | |
| almost 2 years ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Swift | Objective-C | |
| MIT License | NOASSERTION |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
XRay
Posts with mentions or reviews of XRay.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-29.
Flex
Posts with mentions or reviews of Flex.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-29.
- [question] Tweak to edit/spoof app output?
- What kind of Flex does twitterBH is using?
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How do you debug UIView? Are you using Debug View Hierarchy in XCode? I made the XRay library to help you debug UIView more conveniently link: https://github.com/ShawnBaek/XRay
How does this compare to FLEX?
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What tools/libraries/practices do you use that improve your iOS development?
https://github.com/FLEXTool/FLEX which is amazing in app debugging.
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Add UIView below UISearchController in UINavigationController
I used FLEX to inspect the app, unfortunately this requires a jailbroken device I order to inject into apps and processes other than your own.
- [request] flex 4.4.1 deb
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PSA: when people post screenshot of Buying / selling GME use fotoforensics.com to check if it’s been edited (using /u/XtraLyf 's post as an example)
There's also other ways to fake screenshots. For example on a jailbroken iPhone using flex you can literally change the content in a UILabel and then take the screenshot. No image editing necessary.
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What little dev helper tools do you have integrated in your projects?
I use FLEX to quickly reverse engineer frameworks and debug UI. https://github.com/FLEXTool/FLEX
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Capture Websocket Traffic by "Method swizzling" on URLSessionWebsocketTask
This approach is similar to the FLEX library, but it's only for HTTP traffic, not Websocket, and you have to directly inspect your iOS apps.
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Create my first article on iOS network debugging, need your opinion on it
FLEX
What are some alternatives?
When comparing XRay and Flex you can also consider the following projects:
SwiftLint - A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.
Dotzu
Clue - Flexible bug report framework for iOS
SwiftFormat - A command-line tool and Xcode Extension for formatting Swift code
MLeaksFinder - Find memory leaks in your iOS app at develop time.
FBMemoryProfiler - iOS tool that helps with profiling iOS Memory usage.
PIDOR
Warnings-xcconfig - An xcconfig (Xcode configuration) file for easily turning on a boatload of warnings in your project or its targets.
chisel - Chisel is a collection of LLDB commands to assist debugging iOS apps.
Buglife - Awesome bug reporting for iOS apps
GlueKit - Type-safe observable values and collections in Swift
Alpha - Next generation debugging framework for iOS