inspect-the-view-hierarchy-of-any-ios-apps-on-ios-12.md

title	date	tags	type	license
Inspect the View Hierarchy of Any iOS Apps in 2019	2019-06-11	iOS Reveal Jailbreak iOS 12	Blog	CC BY-SA 4.0

If you're an iOS Developer. You've probably heard of Reveal.

It's a powerful runtime view debugging tool for iOS developers.

If you have a jailbroken iOS device. You're possible to debug any other's apps without having its source code.

Read Peter Steinberger's post How to Inspect the View Hierarchy of Third-Party Apps.

I'll show you how to inspect with iOS 12.

Preparing

Install Reveal

brew cask install reveal

Jailbreak an iOS device. My tutorial.

Install Xcode

mas install 497799835

Installing

Checkout my GitHub fork of Reveal2Loader

git clone https://github.com/HackingGate/Reveal2Loader.git
cd Reveal2Loader

Build .deb package

make clean
make
make package

Upload .deb package to jailbroken iOS device

scp releases/debs/naville.revealloader2_1.0.0-1_iphoneos-arm.deb root@192.168.2.2:~/

SSH login in jailbroken iOS device

ssh root@192.168.2.2

Install .deb. It will download RevealServer.zip form my download center. And set everything up.

dpkg -i naville.revealloader2_1.0.0-1_iphoneos-arm.deb

Inspecting

On your jailbroken device. Open Settings -> Reveal

Enable applications you want to inspect

Open Reveal.app. You'll see inspectable apps appear.

Reveal only works on Apple's own UI framework. Frameworks such as Flutter only shows one layer.

Pinterest is using ASCollectionView for its waterfall layout.

Pixiv ScrollView for image zoom.