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UI Debugging Overlay.py
# Pythonista script to show the UI Debugging overlay (private API) described in this blog post:
# http://ryanipete.com/blog/ios/swift/objective-c/uidebugginginformationoverlay/
from objc_util import ObjCClass, on_main_thread
UIDebuggingInformationOverlay = ObjCClass('UIDebuggingInformationOverlay')
@on_main_thread
def toggle_overlay():
UIDebuggingInformationOverlay.prepareDebuggingOverlay()
UIDebuggingInformationOverlay.overlay().toggleVisibility()
toggle_overlay()
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jsbain commented Aug 19, 2017

holy moly! how did i not know about this before! Does this actually work in pythonista ( i seem to get an empty table)

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scj643 commented Nov 30, 2017

iOS 11 breaks this

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Aareon commented Jun 2, 2021

https://www.raywenderlich.com/295-swizzling-in-ios-11-with-uidebugginginformationoverlay may have some info on how to update for >iOS11

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