This document discusses remote debugging tools for mobile apps and introduces AppSpector. It notes that debugging takes up significant development time and that existing tools like crash reporting, bug reporting, logging services and debug bridges have limitations. AppSpector is presented as an alternative that allows real-time remote debugging on both iOS and Android apps over any network, with features like offline recording, session history, and two-way communication between the developer and app.

1. Remote debugging for mobile
apps

2. Who am I
• CTO @
• Debugging iOS apps since iOS 2.2.1
• Debugging Android apps since Android 2.1

3. – According to Cambridge University research
“Debugging (fixing code and making code works)
takes up to 50% of development time”
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.370.9611&rep=rep1&type=pdf

4. Why $MyFavoriteIDE
is not enough?

5. Why remote?

6. Problems

7. Idiotic backend

8. Unexpected network conditions

9. Physical access

10. Internal database debugging

11. Tools

12. Crash reporting

13. • Not real-time
• Limited data context

14. Bug reporting tools

15. • Not real-time
• Limited data context
• One-way communication
• Readonly

16. Logging services

17. • Not real-time
• Simple text logs
• Too verbose logging can make
it hard to find actually issue

18. Network Proxies

19. • Only works on Wi-Fi network

20. In App Debug Panels

21. • Works only inside mobile app
• Mobile UI
• No history

22. Debug Bridges

23. • Only works with local devices
• UI sucks
• No history

24. Remote LLDB/ADB
https://lldb.llvm.org/remote.html

25. • Hard to use
• Requires network setup

27. So what’s next?

28. AppSpector
Made in Ukraine !

29. How to use
Install SDK Run App Debug

30. Why
• Remote
• Real-time
• Offline recording
• Sessions history
• 2-way communication

31. Networking

32. Logs

33. CoreData

34. SQLite

35. Location Debugging

36. Used by

37. Happy debugging
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• https://appspector.com
• https://demo.appspector.com/