instruments eBook

Find and Fix Problems with Your Code Using Instruments

You’re developing an iOS or Mac app. Your code builds and runs but has problems like the following:

The app is slow.
The app takes a long time to launch.
The operating system kills the app because it’s using too memory.

Instruments is Intimidating

Xcode comes with Instruments, a tool to help you find problems in your code such as memory leaks, high memory usage, and slow running code. But Instruments bombards you with so much data that it’s hard to find where the problems are in your code.

You run the Time Profiler instrument to find the slow spots in your code and get a listing like the following:

The listing shows a bunch of functions you didn’t write. How do you find your code? What’s the difference between Weight and Self Weight? What you really want to know is the code causing the slow performance, and Instruments gives you a list of low-level threading functions. How do you find your code?

Learn to Make Sense of Instruments and Improve App Performance

I’m writing a book about Instruments. The book will show you how to find the most important information from the Instruments data, such as the code causing problems. Some of the things you will learn in the book include the following:

Using the Leaks instrument to find memory leaks and find the code allocating the leaked memory.
Using the Allocations instrument to find how much memory your app uses and find the code that allocates the most memory.
Using the Time Profiler instrument to find the slow spots in your code.
Using the SwiftUI instruments to find the views that are redrawn the most and the view properties triggering those redraws.

After reading this book you will be able to use Instruments and find the code causing problems in your app. Finding the code you need to fix is the first step to making apps that run faster, use less memory, and don’t leak memory.

Book Contents

I plan to have the following chapters in the book:

A Quick Start Guide to using Instruments that covers the most common things you’ll do with Instruments
Launching Instruments and profiling your app
Interpreting and filtering the data Instruments generates
Leaks instrument deep dive
Allocations instrument deep dive
Time Profiler instrument deep dive
SwiftUI instruments deep dive

I want to learn Instruments

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