Hops lets you preview compiled iOS applications in Quick Look.
At present, it will display previews for exported IPAs (.ipa) and Xcode build archives (.xcarchive).
You can use it to preflight IPAs, to make sure the correct provisoning profile was used during compilation, and to check that the desired device UDIDs are permitted. You can also use it to determine which of a list of seemingly identical archived builds contains the specific version you want.
Currently, it displays the application's name, version, unique identifier, the APNS environment (if any), whether debugging is permitted (AKA get-task-allow), what device UDIDs the application is permitted to run on, and the keychain access groups accessible by the application.
Displaying supported Universal architectures (ARMv7, ARMv7s, etc.) and supported hardware (via UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities) is planned.
Download the latest version, unzip it if necessary, and install it by following these steps:
- Open the Library by opening Finder, holding the Option key, and choosing Go - Library in the menu.
- Double-click the QuickLook folder.
- Drag Hops Viewer.qlgenerator here.
First, clone this repository.
- Open Hops.xcworkspace (not Hops.xcodeproj) in Xcode 5.
- Choose Product - Build from the menu.
- Show the Project Navigator by pressing ⌘-1.
- Expand the Products group by clicking the arrow.
- Control-click (or right-click) Hops Viewer.qlgenerator and choose Show in Finder.
- Open the Library by opening Finder, holding the Option key, and choosing Go - Library in the menu.
- Double-click the QuickLook folder.
- Drag Hops Viewer.qlgenerator here.
From the root of this repository, run:
xcodebuild -target "Hops Viewer"
mv "build/Release/Hops Viewer.qlgenerator" ~/Library/QuickLook
Hops is broken into a dynamic library (called Hops) and a Quick Look generator that uses this library (called Hops Viewer.) There is no runnable build target -- just use the test suite, or install the built .qlgenerator for interactive testing.
You may need to run qlmanage -r to forcibly reload the Quick Look generators after installing a new version.
NSLog statements in Hops or Hops Viewer can be viewed using Console.app, available in /Applications/Utilities.
You can run the test suite from Xcode using Product - Test in the menu or from the command line:
hops $ xcodebuild -scheme Hops test
Bugfixes and enhancements will happily be accepted either as GitHub pull requests or via email as git format-patch-style patches. Do whatever works best for you!
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Copyright (c) 2014 Phillip Calvin
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