How to Use Instruments in Xcode

[rwenderlich]

This is the official thread to discuss the following blog post: How to Use Instruments in Xcode

[Sylvan]

Thanks for this tutorial. It came at a good time for me. However, after running this profiler for the first time, my Cocos2D app no longer shows the stats in the lower-left corner, like fps, number of draw calls, etc. Neither in my simulator nor the device. Any idea how to get this back?

Edit: Never mind! I found out what happened. Somehow the fps_images files had gotten removed from my project. I had to re-add them to the project and all is good. No idea why that happened though

[mattjgalloway]

Glad you liked the tutorial!

What changes did you make as a result of going through instruments? Something like UI disappearing sounds extremely odd, just from fixing leaks, etc.

[PatrickCocoa]

Thanks, this tutorial was very helpful. All of the examples (timer, allocations, and leaks) seem like they'll be applicable for almost any app. I'm going to go fire up some of my apps and give these instruments a try!

[skrew]

I've been a follower for of RW since a while, but this tutorial took it to another level higher. Thanks a lot for this, it was very-very useful. Just made me order the ios5&ios6 tutorials book

[mattjgalloway]

I've been a follower for of RW since a while, but this tutorial took it to another level higher. Thanks a lot for this, it was very-very useful. Just made me order the ios5&ios6 tutorials book

Glad you liked the tutorial! There's lots more I'd like to talk about on Instruments as well . Glad you bought the book! It's a cracking read that's for sure. Enjoy!

[skrew]

Glad you bought the book! It's a cracking read that's for sure. Enjoy!

I was "shocked" at its size Great stuff.
Anything more about instruments is welcomed (by many more people I bet too).

[marko1503]

Nice tutorial, but it will be better to add one more test. How to test your apps when it's in background. I mean how to check that you app doesn't use dirty memory in background (after user taps home button, not background mode like plays music, navigation etc). Apple says that your app will active as long as less memory your app use.

[mattjgalloway]

Nice tutorial, but it will be better to add one more test. How to test your apps when it's in background. I mean how to check that you app doesn't use dirty memory in background (after user taps home button, not background mode like plays music, navigation etc). Apple says that your app will active as long as less memory your app use.

Well for that you just need to ensure that your memory footprint is low when you go to the background. You can use the allocations instrument to see how much memory you're using. You're right though that it would make for a good topic to explicitly talk about in a future post.

[deepumukundan]

Instruments always had been a mystery for me. Not anymore. Thanks Matt for showing how to use it and make apps robust!