Saturday, October 12, 2013

Basic use of Instruments for iOS and Mac application

Instrument tools is used to collect performance data of your iOS or Mac application. It also has a record option to record the whole data collected from your application. I use instruments tool to check with real memory and fps. Memory through Activity Monitor and fps through core animation. 

1) How do i download Instrument tool ?
- Instrument tool comes with Xcode 4 toolset. Xcode can be downloaded from Mac App store

2) How do you check with real memory and virtual memory?
- Select Activity Monitor through library and then select the target application and hit record button. In log section you would be listing with real memory and virtual memory of the application. You can also check with CPU utilization too.

3) Where is library, how to select target application and where is record and log section?
- Screenshot would explain you everything


 4) How do you check with FPS?
- Select Core animation in library section and then select the target application and then hit record button. You would be listed with FPS of your application.