Xctool: a replacement for xcodebuild to build and test iOS and Mac projects

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Post by marcosero » Thu, May 02, 2013, 3:34 PM UTC

Xctool: a replacement for xcodebuild to build and test iOS and Mac projects
github.com

Re: Xctool: a replacement for xcodebuild to build and test iOS and Mac projects

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Post by tvon » Thu, May 02, 2013, 5:57 PM UTC

Nicely formatted output. I've been leaning towards using Rake tasks to handle this (there are a few gems out there to help), but I'll give this a whirl.

Re: Xctool: a replacement for xcodebuild to build and test iOS and Mac projects

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Post by rogerbinns » Thu, May 02, 2013, 6:33 PM UTC

I'm incredibly frustrated by the lack of command line dev tools for iOS. For example using adb with Android, I can stop a running app, clear all of its data and start it again. I can push and pull files and can dissect the internal state as a result.

I do find various unmaintained tools for iOS as they generally use undocumented and changing backends.

My current biggest need is to grab and put files in the app sandbox. There are several gui tools that can do it like i-funbox, but absolutely nothing that is automatable. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15980545/command-line-acc...

Re: Xctool: a replacement for xcodebuild to build and test iOS and Mac projects

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Post by puls » Thu, May 02, 2013, 6:35 PM UTC

"Runs the same tests as Xcode.app."

If this works, it's huge. Mad excited about this.

Re: Xctool: a replacement for xcodebuild to build and test iOS and Mac projects

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Post by seany » Thu, May 02, 2013, 6:48 PM UTC

rogerbinns wrote: post #3

I'm incredibly frustrated by the lack of command line dev tools for iOS. For example using adb with Android, I can stop a running app, clear all of its data and start it again. I can push and pull files and can dissect the internal state as a result. I do find various unmaintained tools for iOS as they generally use undocumented and changing backends. My current biggest need is to grab and put files in the app sandbo…

You mean you don't want to drive the organizer and instruments via scripting bridge? :-p

Re: Xctool: a replacement for xcodebuild to build and test iOS and Mac projects

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Post by dfamorato » Thu, May 02, 2013, 7:55 PM UTC

I LOOOOVEEE the output. Nice, colorful and significant.

if you want to link it to your /usr/local/bin directory.. just modify the xctool.sh XCTOOL_DIR=path/where/xctool/is/located

Now... if only i could figure out how to use the xctool with Fortify....

Re: Xctool: a replacement for xcodebuild to build and test iOS and Mac projects

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Post by rogerbinns » Thu, May 02, 2013, 8:52 PM UTC

seany wrote: post #5

rogerbinns wrote: post #3

I'm incredibly frustrated by the lack of command line dev tools for iOS. For example using adb with Android, I can stop a running app, clear all of its data and start it again. I can push and pull files and can dissect the internal state as a result. I do find various unmaintained tools for iOS as they generally use undocumented and changing backends. My current biggest need is to grab and put files in the app sandbo…

You mean you don't want to drive the organizer and instruments via scripting bridge? :-p

I couldn't find the dictionary for the organizer. In any event the organizer only shows my apps, rather than all apps as ifunbox and similar tools do.

fruitstrap would also greatly help but it is no longer maintained (with several forks).

Re: Xctool: a replacement for xcodebuild to build and test iOS and Mac projects

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Post by LegNeato » Thu, May 02, 2013, 9:02 PM UTC

puls wrote: post #4

"Runs the same tests as Xcode.app." If this works, it's huge. Mad excited about this.

It works, we use it here at Facebook

Re: Xctool: a replacement for xcodebuild to build and test iOS and Mac projects

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Post by LegNeato » Thu, May 02, 2013, 9:15 PM UTC

rogerbinns wrote: post #3

I'm incredibly frustrated by the lack of command line dev tools for iOS. For example using adb with Android, I can stop a running app, clear all of its data and start it again. I can push and pull files and can dissect the internal state as a result. I do find various unmaintained tools for iOS as they generally use undocumented and changing backends. My current biggest need is to grab and put files in the app sandbo…

Check out http://www.libimobiledevice.org/ and https://github.com/ios-driver/libimobile-java

Re: Xctool: a replacement for xcodebuild to build and test iOS and Mac projects

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Post by rogerbinns » Thu, May 02, 2013, 9:23 PM UTC

LegNeato wrote: post #9

rogerbinns wrote: post #3

I'm incredibly frustrated by the lack of command line dev tools for iOS. For example using adb with Android, I can stop a running app, clear all of its data and start it again. I can push and pull files and can dissect the internal state as a result. I do find various unmaintained tools for iOS as they generally use undocumented and changing backends. My current biggest need is to grab and put files in the app sandbo…

Check out http://www.libimobiledevice.org/ and https://github.com/ios-driver/libimobile-java

I already did a while back. I couldn't find any evidence that it supported access to the application sandbox which uses a slightly different protocol.