iOS Support

[Almouro]

iOS support isn't a priority at the moment, since on average iOS devices performance is much better (and usually that translates to apps having less performance issues).

However it is still something we want to search into and implement at some point, so if you'd like to have iOS support, feel free to show it by adding a 👍 emoji to this issue.

[developerdanx]

How can we help with iOS support?

[Almouro]

Thanks for asking @developerdanx!

On iOS, we haven't investigated much a technical solution yet.

For the performance measuring part, I think one possibility would be to use xctrace (previously XCode instruments) to generate a trace file, and then manage to parse it to get an array of measures out of it

If you'd like to try your hand at a POC, I'd be happy to help out!

[developerdanx]

Yes this is feasible I think. I'll try something out and share the results 😁

[GuillaumeEgret]

Hi ! Quick update, we are also going to try to develop a POC for iOS in the next few days with @Almouro

[Almouro]

We've deployed the (crude) POC here https://github.com/bamlab/flashlight/tree/main/packages/ios-poc

We'll work to make it easier to use in the coming weeks with @GuillaumeEgret 🤞

[Almouro]

Still in progress, but @GuillaumeEgret managed to have a POC of CPU measures per thread when running a Maestro test
It's already running in the CI on this repo https://github.com/bamlab/flashlight/blob/main/.github/workflows/ios_e2e.sh

Here's an example report: https://65031abea84fdb098fb48ce4--flashlight-open-source-reports.netlify.app/report.html

Next is:

• unify API with flashlight test on Android
• consider live measures with flashlight measure
• run it on AWS for complete Lighthouse for iOS apps

[JuanRdBO]

Hey guys! Is this still ongoing? I'd love to test iOS devices as well