ASCIIArtDebugging is a fun yet useful way to debug UIImage & UIImageViews in order to see what gets passed around for the image at runtime. Instead of just looking at the memory address or properties while debugging, ASCIIArtDebugging takes the image and creates an ASCIIArt image in your console.
ASCIIArtDebugging can accomidate different Xcode window console sizes as well as different types of image sizes and data types.
You can adjust the kMaxWidth and kMaxHeight values to accomodate your appropriate screen size.
In the lldb console:
(lldb) po image
or
(lldb) po imageview
Simply place the category methods in your PCH file and compile your project. Feel free to adjust adjust the screen size in the .m files. You can also toggle to print out ascii art in debug mode only. i.e. Debug Only will display ascii art when typing "po imageInstance" but would not display ascii art in NSLog("here is an image %@", imageInstance);
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