Development tools that can boost your dev speed

As Xcode has visual debugger for interface many don’t go for any other tools. In my experience I have tried two different tools one is totally awesome, other seemed to have potential but disappointed me badly that I had to ask refund.

Let’s here about the “Good” Tools first. “Reveal” is hands down the best app that I have ever seen out there. I have head it about from my Coworker second time. It’s little bit expensive side $89 bucks at the time of writing but it’s going to save you a lot of time and as they say “Time is money”

❤️ This is how Reveal looks like

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You can download the trial @ http://revealapp.com/

Now about the bad tool : Its quite in expensive compare to Reveal, it’s called “Spark Inspector”. I had problem with it that it won’t connect to my debugger to show me the window like above as in Reveal. I had only it’s trial working for short time but when I bought it. I was never able to get it run for me. I got refund but time that I spend working with their support. Finally I got it refund and went to Reveal. happy since then.

Note: There would be some differences what you see in simulator and what you see in these visual debuggers. Reason unknown yet.

⭐️ PostMan

Post man is free tool and can be very handy when working with API endpoints. Postman Chrome App as well as Mac App can be download from https://www.getpostman.com/

This is how app look like and I have to tell you that its pretty sleek. Indeed its going to help me a lot when I am analyzing some private APIs.

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⭐️VisualJSON

@Mac AppStore : Legacy Visual JSON Mac App Store listing no longer resolves.

AppStore descriprion : Visual JSON is a simple and very easy to use JSON visulization tool for JSON API server/client developers. Using the Visual JSON utility one can access remote or local address to JSON server and refresh its result with a click. Or just paste raw JSON value.You also can test POST method using simple http query expressions.

This is an open source project if you think you can support this App by helping in development. Please do so.

@GitHub : https://github.com/youknowone/VisualJSON