FBSimulatorControl vs Xtrace

FBSimulatorControl

idb is a flexible command line interface for automating iOS simulators and devices (by facebook)

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Xtrace

Trace Objective-C method calls by class or instance (by johnno1962)

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FBSimulatorControl		Xtrace
	Project
3	Mentions	-
4,425	Stars	1,837
0.9%	Growth	-
8.4	Activity	0.0
7 days ago	Latest Commit	about 3 years ago
Objective-C	Language	Objective-C++
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

FBSimulatorControl

Posts with mentions or reviews of FBSimulatorControl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-10.

Mobile app testing easier with Maestro (React Native)
5 projects | dev.to | 10 May 2023

Facebook IDB: https://github.com/facebook/idb
Which IDB commands do you use the most?
1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 13 Apr 2023

If you are using IDB (iOS Development Bridge), which commands do you use the most?
Test your react native app with maestro
5 projects | dev.to | 22 Dec 2022

Running flows on iOS Simulator requires installation of Facebook IDB.

Xtrace

Posts with mentions or reviews of Xtrace. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Xtrace yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FBSimulatorControl and Xtrace you can also consider the following projects:

appledoc - Objective-c code Apple style documentation set generator.

R.swift - Strong typed, autocompleted resources like images, fonts and segues in Swift projects

fastlane-plugin-appicon - Generate required icon sizes and iconset from a master application icon.

SwiftLintXcode - An Xcode plug-in to format your code using SwiftLint.

GDPerformanceView-Swift - Shows FPS, CPU and memory usage, device model, app and iOS versions above the status bar and report FPS, CPU and memory usage via delegate.

Swizzlean - Swizzlean, an Objective-C Swizzle Helper Class.

SwiftKitten

SwiftGen - The Swift code generator for your assets, storyboards, Localizable.strings, … — Get rid of all String-based APIs!

Struct - Xcode projects on steroids

Kin - Sane PBXProj files

XcodeGen - A Swift command line tool for generating your Xcode project

xcbuild - Xcode-compatible build tool.