Top "Instruments" questions

Instruments usually refers to the performance analysis developer tool provided by Apple for Mac and iOS development.

What instrument should I use in Xcode to see FPS?

Some time ago I used instruments to see the FPS of an iPad application in Xcode 3. Now I'm using Xcode 4 …

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Start Instruments from the command line

I followed this site to get started with UI Automation. http://blog.manbolo.com/2012/04/08/ios-automated-tests-with-uiautomation#1.2 I am trying to start …

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Is there anyway to read performance counters on OS X Mountain Lion?

Shark, Apple's profiler which let you configure custom performance counters, is no longer supported in OSX Mountain Lion since it …

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Slow performance for presentViewController - depends on complexity of presentING controller?

I am presenting a view controller: SCAAboutController2 *controller = [[SCAAboutController2 alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil]; UINavigationController *navController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:controller]; […

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ios Zombie detection

I'm having (in my opinion) a very difficult problem in my code. It crashes randomly at different places in the …

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How to debug an overloading backboardd?

I have a UIView with several instances of a subclassed CAShapeLayer added as sublayers to its layer property. I am …

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Instruments in Xcode 4

I was trying to open instruments in xcode 4 but was not able to find a way to do it. Usually …

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How can I get rid of resident dirty memory in Objective-C?

I watched Apple's WWDC 2010 video on Advanced Memory Analysis with Instruments and from that, I was able to find a …

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iPhone 4 profile power consumption (with instruments)

I have an app that I added a lot of animation to. The app also used "iPhone sleep preventer" to …

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Best Resources for UIAutomation Testing for iOS Applications

Testing with UIAutomation on Instruments is great, however, the documentation and resources around it are either non-existent or in hiding. …

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