EYLogTextView

A simple UITextView subclass to see your app's logs on your iDevice in realtime.

Features

• One line to integrate. Singleton for easier access.
• Shake device to hide and show.
• Compatible with standard NSLog, print and Logger, no special logging method needed.
• Saves all logs to local files to be shared later.
• Customizable size, position, opacity, font and colors.
• Default style is optimized for best visibility based on macOS Terminal.app Red Sands theme.
• Always on top, except for system windows like keyboards, alerts, etc.
• Uses NSPipe on stderr and stdout (no overhead).
• Works even while not connected to Xcode.
• Compatible with both Objective-C and Swift projects.
• Drag&Drop to any point on the screen by long press.

Integration

Objective-C Projects

In your project's AppDelegate, import EYLogTextView.h and add following line at the beginning of application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: method:

[EYLogTextView add];

(For potentially capturing earlier logs you can start it main.m as well.)

Swift Projects

In your project's Bridging Header, import EYLogTextView.h and add following line at the beginning of application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: function:

EYLogTextView.add()

Usage

• By default EYLogTextView will be hidden. You can shake your device to make it visible.
• You can also use show/hide or toggle methods to change visibility.
• As it is a UITextView subclass singleton, you can customizable size, position, opacity, font and colors as you wish by accessing the shared instance using sharedInstance method.
• You can long press to drag&drop it anywhere you want.
• You can tap to display menu with following options:
  • Share current log file
  • See all log files
  • Share current console text
  • Hide
  • Clear current console text
• You can share all previously saved logs files and current log file.
• You can delete all previously saved logs files.

ScreenShots (will be updated soon)