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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.
Pros of PonyDebugger
- Coredata inspection GUI3
- View hierarchy inspection1