Xcode Time Tracker

This is the tool that allows to track events that are happening in Xcode This tool simply runs tracking scripts based on Xcode behaviors. It's independent on the Xcode version (as soon as you have Xcode version higher than 4 :) It will survive Xcode reinstallations, so it works on 'install and forget basis'

Raw output example

The result of this tool will be one simple csv file looking like this

#ProjectName, Workspace, TimeStart, TimeEnd, Event, TimeSpent
No project,TimeTracker.xcworkspace,1497876725,1497876729,Build Succeeded,4
No project,TimeTracker.xcworkspace,1497876729,1497877067,Run Completed,338
No project,TimeTracker.xcworkspace,1497877067,1497877088,Build Succeeded,21

Installation

There'are two installation steps:

1. Place scripts to ~/.timecheck directory
2. Setup Xcode behaviours to run those scripts on every run

Scripts installation

Simply run

CURRENT=`pwd`
cd `mktemp -d`
git clone https://github.com/PaulTaykalo/xcode-time-tracker
cd xcode-time-tracker
sh ./install.sh
cd ..
rm -rf xcode-time-tracker
cd $CURRENT

This will download and copy project_start.py and project_end.py to the ~/.timecheck directory

Xcode Behaviours setup

1. Edit Xcode Behaviors
   
2. Set project_start.py script as custom script for start behaviors
   
3. Set project_end.py script as custom script for end behaviors
   

Next step

There are no more steps. Done.

Check Installation

Build your precious project and see that there's new file appeared in ~/.timecheck directory It should contain line that should look like this

No project,HeyYouAreAwesome.xcworkspace,1597876725,1597876729,Build Succeeded,4

Visualization

The next step is to visualize this information. I used R language for that. But there's more coming This how it can look like if you'll be able to setup R correcly :)