I'm looking for a way to read the watch's syslog in real-time, similar to the way Device Console or this do it for the iPhone.
It's ok if the phone will be plugged by usb to the computer at the time I'm reading.
At this point I'll even settle for a solution that somehow reads the texts at real-time from Xcode debug console, really (though I will prefer a way to hook in to the watch's syslog in a standard fashion :)..
Thanks!
While I couldn't find any official way to get logs from the device, I did manage to write a hack that does so in real time.
It uses a python GUI automation library to pull the text from the Xcode console window.
Please notice this solution does have it's limitations, as it:
requires the phone to be connected to the computer via cable
only contains the logs from your own app, thus it falls short of the tools mentioned earlier.
However, it did solve my problem and I'm publishing the short python code in the hopes that it will help other developers.
import atomac
def get_console():
xcode = atomac.getAppRefByBundleId('com.apple.dt.Xcode')
return xcode.windows()[0].groups()[0].textAreasR()[1]
def run():
console = get_console()
while True:
clog = console.AXValue[-1000:]
last_read = clog.split("\n")[-2]
print last_read
if __name__ == "__main__":
run()
Notice you may have to play with some of the indexes inside get_console() to get the console window in your Xcode setup.
(If you're interested, this hack code was written for a hackathon project, as a way to get fast data from the watch since it couldn't send any UDP packets on WatchOS2 Beta 4 and the official ways of sending data from the watch [such as sendMessageData:replyHandler:errorHandler:] were too slow for what we needed).
I know this is an old thread, but for anyone who lands on this search, there is way to do this: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/94693.
To summarize, load a diagnostic profile onto the watch, (link in the forum post,) then you can use MacOS system console to see the watch messages. Right now I'm having a strange issue where some of the messages I NSLog() appear and others don't, but you can see the watch messages in real time.
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Our iOS app has a subtle bug which is 100% reproducible on one of the team members’ device.
He is not a programmer, so he does not use XCode.
To investigate the bug, I plan to make a custom build with logging, ask him to launch it and reproduce the bug.
The question is where to write logs to and how to get them from his device with minimal friction.
I believe that logs must be written to some local file on iPhone, and then he send me this file say by email.
Are there any ideas how to make this sharing clear and easy for a non-programmer?
Little clarification:
In my concrete case I need to log a couple of (rather long) base64-encoded string.
The better way for your scenario is use slack, telegram or any chat application. Then instead log to the files, you can send log to a channel directly.
https://core.telegram.org/bots/api
https://api.slack.com/messaging/webhooks
In our applications, we write the log to the files, then server side supports the api to upload these files.
I have been trying to understand how Mobile Device Farms like DeviceConnect, AWS Device Farm, SauceLabs, etc. get to remote control iOS devices, but I can't find anything on the subject. They get to do it without jailbreaking, which baffles me even more.
I love these kind of projects, because at the moment it seems undoable, but I know that it is possible ('they' are doing it).
With remote control I mean: seeing the screen of the iOS device on your computer screen and able to touch and swipe with your mouse.
Can someone please point me in the right direction as to how these technically work?
If you're using an iPad (in particular) or an iPhone (if you think you'll be able to make our any detail on the smaller screen) then using remote access to view and control what's on your friend's Mac is a good option. And the best way to remote-access a Mac from an iPad is to use Google's free Chrome Remote Access service, which lets you remotely use Mac programs from an iOS device.
It's quite an involved process to set it up the first time, but easy if you want to do it again in future. You'll need the Google Chrome web browser for Mac, and a Google account.
Here is link for Chrome Remote access
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desktop/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp?hl=en
Open Chrome and go to Chrome Remote Desktop on the Chrome Webstore. Click Add to Chrome, then Add App. Click Allow, then Continue.
I will give you one approach and small explanation .
You will need to create application with all possible permissions at first also implementation handlers functions .
For example :
Works with files
Real native Socket connections (not http protocol) + need to have some main server signalling (domain or static ip).
Handle remote touch trigger (main problem for real remote/iOS)
Background part experience
Your app need to be non-Market app (more likely).
You can make Application with all possible options that apple give us.
What can you do remote with your app : -control camera/ Mic read geo data , work with galleries , delete or create files . Socket will be communication line .
Also app must initially started and make (on user request) always allow all permissions .
Use camera :
Send with socket some command example ( openCamera ) . AFTER receive this string perform action for opening camera .
If you can fix programability triggering touch events you can make remoteIOS.
More data links :
Q/A send remote events
Q about touch events
Q/A about Permisions
Sorry for the first quick answer,
All of these: DeviceConnect, AWS Device Farm, SauceLabs use Appium in order to control devices.
The component that execute the command is the WebDriver.
Appium have different WebDriver implementation in order to execute operations to different device.
The iOS WebDriver can be found here: https://github.com/appium/appium-ios-driver.
The protocol in use is the JsonWireProtocol.
more details can be found here:
http://appium.io/,
http://www.seleniumhq.org/
Regards
I have been asked to develop an app that will record and later "play back" touches and gestures onto another app running in the foreground.
From my experience and knowledge, this is not possible unless both apps are setup to send/receive data between them through notifications or other methods. Also, it would be a huge risk for apps and their data to be exposed to anybody.
I am 99% sure this is not possible, but was just curious if anyone else has come across something similar (or documentation that specifically states this is forbidden).
Nope not possible, no way no how, dont even try.
Expanded answer, if this runs on a jailbroken phone.......
Yes.... but good luck,
check Saurik's Veency code for this sort of functionality, it would have to be refactored signifcantly but basically it allows for virtualization of taps.
https://github.com/iceNuts/TouchTest
http://gitweb.saurik.com/veency.git
if you want to access another application in your iPhone ,you can set the url scheme parameter and so on.You can add callback in your url，then you can return back your application.
It's actually possible with facebook's idb:
https://github.com/facebook/idb/
As it stated:
Remote Automation. idb has a “companion” that runs on macOS and a python client and cli that runs anywhere. This enables scenarios such as a “Device Lab” within a Data Center or fanning out commands to large numbers of iOS Simulators.
As facebook stop support on WebDriverAgent, it's the best option we have right now
I'm quite new at iOS app development.
I'm starting to work on an app that should in somehow be able to count the missing calls that the iPhone has registered since the app is running.
I've read that in no way Apple is going to let me intercept incoming calls, answer them, reject them, or "whatever" them, but I wonder if we are allowed to count them.
I've found some people that say it can be done (well, I knew it is possible, cause LockInfo does, for instance), but I don't know if it's attached to jailbroken iPhones only.
Anyway, as far as I have seen, it must be done with some methods related to kCTCallStatusChangeNotification from CoreTelephony.h if I'm right (as seen in http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/02/when-it-comes-to-the.html), but I coudln't find much more info about it.
Hello and welcome to iPhone Development! :) As you have already pointed out, you can be informed through a notification if a call is happening. Great! But here comes the dark side of iPhone Development:
That's the end of the road. 95% of the "Phone Functionality" of the iPhone is private API and you don't technically have access to it.
Of course, you could header-dump the private frameworks and use them anyway, but that will get your app instantly rejected from the AppStore, which wouldn't be fun for anyone.
LockInfo is an extension for jailbroken devices - those guys are known for not caring too much about Apple nor Private APIs ;) Also, as you may have seen, LockInfo isn't on the AppStore because it would've never made it that far.
So Apple, why is there CoreTelephony?
Well, it's there for some very specific reasons. I personally use it to obtain the carrier name of the device for certain country specific restrictions in my application. The notification you talked about, along with others, tend to be used by developers to prepare your app for going into an inactive state (when the call comes in, your app is put in the background), so its used to pause tasks etc... CoreTelephony has never been intended for any deep level access to the telephone system of the iPhone.
So sorry, you can't obtain the information you're looking for using public APIs.
I'm working on an iPhone application that makes a few calls to web services. I posted this application on the Apple store but it got rejected (and rightly so) since there was no error message displayed to the user if no Internet connection is available. Since obviously the application would not work without it.
So I just wanted to know how to best achieve this? I'm guessing something needs to go in the viewDidLoad method that will throw an alert box saying something like "You need an Internet connection to use this application".
Any ideas would be appreciated.
If your application must have network access the easiest way is to add the following settings to your info.plist as boolean values.
SBUsesNetwork - Ensure the device has an active connection (Edit: not applicable, this seems to be a private API someone found at some point. It is not in Apple's developer documentation.)
UIRequiresPersistentWiFi - Ensures the device is connected via WiFi
If your choice is not true then the user will be presented with an appropriate message when starting your application. Best of all this message is from the OS and thus is localized.
If your application cannot download data from a website while running (loss of signal, site down) you should still warn the user though and not just spin indefinitely.
Apple Developer Connection has a sample application (Reachability) that uses the System Configuration framework to determine network status. It will tell you whether you have a WiFi, EDGE/3G or no Internet connection.
You would use portions of this code in your application to determine network state, and then provide interface cues if no connection is available, such as a UIAlertView.
Cautionary word: beware SBUsesNetwork. I would personally love to know where SBUsesNetwork originally came from, because it's not mentioned anywhere in Apple's docs that I can find. When I add the key to my app's plist (as a boolean) and set to true, it doesn't seem to affect the behaviour of my app -- I get no warning about airplane mode, whether starting app completely afresh, or foregrounding a previous launch that was backgrounded.
My app has UIRequiresPersistentWifi set to true, which appears to also do the job people claim SBUsesNetwork does (plus other things!).
(I'm running iOS4.2.1 on an iPhone 4, XCode 3.2.5 64 bit).