sgleadow / fruitstrap

Install and debug iPhone apps without using Xcode

fruitstrap

Install and debug iPhone apps without using Xcode. Designed to work on unjailbroken devices.

Requirements

• Mac OS X. Tested on Lion and Snow Leopard.
• You need to have a valid iPhone development certificate installed.
• Xcode must be installed, along with the SDK for your iOS version.

Usage

• fruitstrap [-d] <app> [device_id]
• Optional -d flag launches a remote GDB session after the app has been installed.
• <app> must be an iPhone application bundle, not an IPA.
• Optional device id, useful when you have more than one iPhone/iPad connected to your computer

Demo

• The included demo.app represents the minimum required to get code running on iOS.
• make install will install demo.app to the device.
• make debug will install demo.app and launch a GDB session.

Notes

• With some modifications, it may be possible to use this without Xcode installed; however, you would need a copy of the relevant DeveloperDiskImage.dmg (included with Xcode). GDB would also run slower as symbols would be downloaded from the device on-the-fly.

Issues

• If the app is not compiled for the right iOS version, fruitstrap will succeed but the app will not run (eg. if your app is iOS 5+ only and the device is running iOS 4, fruitstrap runs and seems to copy the app to the device, but it does not appear in Springboard)