Facebook Sonar vs PonyDebugger

Overview

PonyDebugger

Stacks0

Followers19

Votes4

GitHub Stars5.9K

Forks591

Facebook Sonar

Stacks10

Followers11

Votes0

Facebook Sonar vs PonyDebugger: What are the differences?

Developers describe Facebook Sonar as "Extensible mobile app debugger". Sonar is a platform for debugging mobile apps on iOS and Android. Visualize, inspect, and control your apps from a simple desktop interface. Use Sonar as is or extend it using the plugin API. On the other hand, PonyDebugger is detailed as "Remote network and data debugging for your native iOS app using Chrome Developer Tools". PonyDebugger is a remote debugging toolset. It is a client library and gateway server combination that uses Chrome Developer Tools on your browser to debug your application's network traffic and managed object contexts To use PonyDebugger, you must implement the client in your application and connect it to the gateway server. There is currently an iOS client and the gateway server..

Facebook Sonar and PonyDebugger can be categorized as "Mobile Runtime Inspector" tools.

Facebook Sonar and PonyDebugger are both open source tools. PonyDebugger with 5.71K GitHub stars and 597 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Facebook Sonar with 5.34K GitHub stars and 292 GitHub forks.

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PonyDebugger	Facebook Sonar
PonyDebugger is a remote debugging toolset. It is a client library and gateway server combination that uses Chrome Developer Tools on your browser to debug your application's network traffic and managed object contexts. To use PonyDebugger, you must implement the client in your application and connect it to the gateway server. There is currently an iOS client and the gateway server.	Sonar is a platform for debugging mobile apps on iOS and Android. Visualize, inspect, and control your apps from a simple desktop interface. Use Sonar as is or extend it using the plugin API.
Network Traffic Debugging;Core Data Browser;View Hierarchy Debugging;Remote Logging	Mobile development - Sonar aims to be your number one companion for mobile app development on iOS and Android. Therefore, we provide a bunch of useful tools including a log viewer, interactive layout inspector, and network inspector.; Extending Sonar - Sonar is built as a platform. In addition to using the tools already included, you can create your own plugins to visualize and debug data from your mobile apps. Sonar takes care of sending data back and forth, calling functions, and listening for events on the mobile app.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 5.9K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 591	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 0	Stacks 10
Followers 19	Followers 11
Votes 4	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 3 Coredata inspection GUI 1 View hierarchy inspection	No community feedback yet

What are some alternatives to PonyDebugger, Facebook Sonar?

FLEX

FLEX (Flipboard Explorer) is a set of in-app debugging and exploration tools for iOS development. When presented, FLEX shows a toolbar that lives in a window above your application. From this toolbar, you can view and modify nearly every piece of state in your running application.

Stetho

Stetho is a sophisticated debug bridge for Android applications. When enabled, developers have access to the Chrome Developer Tools feature natively part of the Chrome desktop browser. Developers can also choose to enable the optional dumpapp tool which offers a powerful command-line interface to application internals.

Reveal App

Reveal brings the power of tools like Firebug and Web Inspector to iOS developers. See your application's view hierarchy at runtime with advanced 2D and 3D visualisations. Debug view layout and rendering problems in seconds.