PrivateApi.md

How-To Private API

We used class-dump to generate headers for frameworks, we used disassembler to reveal behavior of proprietary code and also some signatures of C-functions (class-dump works only for Obj-C).

Pure class-dump is not enough to make good headers, we have a script dump.py that generates headers of XCTest and patches output of class-dump. It can be used when new Xcode is released and there are changes in APIs. Currently multiple Xcode versions are supported.

Check if anyone already solved the problem

There is a list of open-sourced projects for iOS UI testing, ordered by how much we used from them

• EarlGrey
  • Visibility check
  • Run loop / waiting utils
  • Touch injection
• Detox
  • Idea to use TCC.db for setting up application permissions.
• KIF
  • Idea to use UIKeyboardImpl
• WebDriverAgent
  • Private headers, long time ago
• monkeytalk
  • We got nothing from it yet
• WebKit
  • Proper generation of IOHID events
• AppleSimUtils
  • Interesting project. We may use it to improve stability of setting permissions.

Table of contents

• DumpPy.md
• ClassDump.md
• Disassembling.md
• Runtime.md
• ExploringSimulator.md
• Examples.md
  • FixingInjectionOfEventsExample.md