Add support for listing running processes #575
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Add support
--list_processes
, which lists the running processes on the device, along with PIDs.This PID can be useful to attaching an already running process. Related #525.
The ability to list processes is provided by the
com.apple.instruments.remoteserver
service. This service uses a different communication protocol. The details and the reference implementation is provided by troybowman/ios_instruments_client. I've also referred the implementations at FBInstrumentsClient.m in facebook/idb and remote_server.py at doronz88/pymobiledevice3.Ability to talk to the instruments server can also bring more improvements for us in future.
--justlaunch
argument by using the instruments server instead of launching via lldb and detaching.All of these improvements can help with a bunch of use-cases and eliminate the need to use other tools along with ios-deploy for common debugging or simple automations for installing/launching apps.
Currently tested on one device with iOS 15.6.1