PonyDebugger vs Stetho

Overview

PonyDebugger

Stacks0

Followers19

Votes4

GitHub Stars5.9K

Forks591

Stetho

Stacks46

Followers41

Votes0

GitHub Stars12.7K

Forks1.1K

PonyDebugger vs Stetho: What are the differences?

What is PonyDebugger? 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..

What is Stetho? A new debugging platform for Android, built by Facebook. 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.

PonyDebugger and Stetho belong to "Mobile Runtime Inspector" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by PonyDebugger are:

Network Traffic Debugging
Core Data Browser
View Hierarchy Debugging

On the other hand, Stetho provides the following key features:

Chrome DevTools UI
Network inspection
Database inspection

PonyDebugger and Stetho are both open source tools. It seems that Stetho with 11.2K GitHub stars and 1.03K forks on GitHub has more adoption than PonyDebugger with 5.71K GitHub stars and 597 GitHub forks.

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PonyDebugger	Stetho
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.	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.
Network Traffic Debugging;Core Data Browser;View Hierarchy Debugging;Remote Logging	Chrome DevTools UI;Network inspection;Database inspection; dumpapp
Statistics
GitHub Stars 5.9K	GitHub Stars 12.7K
GitHub Forks 591	GitHub Forks 1.1K
Stacks 0	Stacks 46
Followers 19	Followers 41
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, Stetho?

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.

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.

Facebook Sonar

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.

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