How To Inspect The View Hierarchy Of Third-Party Apps

1 · Peter Steinberger · Dec. 27, 2013, 5:42 p.m.
I’m generally not a big fan of jailbreaks. Mostly this is because they’re used for piracy and all the hacks result in weird crashes that generally are impossible to reproduce. Still, I was quite excited about the recent iOS 7 jailbreak, since it enables us to attach the debugger to third-party apps and do a little bit of runtime analysis. Why? Because it’s fun, and it can inspire you to solve things differently. Studying the view hierarchy of complex apps can be rather revealing and it’s interes...