Panes and tools

The railCopy Anchor Link

Tools open as cards beside the device. A glass rail above the right column holds eight groups, one icon each. A group is one card, and a card with several tabs has a segmented bar under its header. Each group remembers its last tab. Any card can be expanded.

Most tools need Developer Mode and a live device. The Devices page lists what each setting shows.

InspectCopy Anchor Link

The Inspector shows the screen as a tree of elements, with a role and label for each. Search it before you write a selector. Unnamed containers are hidden, so labelled elements stand out. If the first read fails, the app restarts the accessibility reader once and says so.

Inspect mode works on the mirror itself. Choose View > Inspect Elements (Shift-Command-I), or press the scope button in the Inspector header or the toolbar.

• Pointing outlines the deepest element under the pointer, with a label of role, name, identifier and size.
• A click pins the element and selects its row. Copy selector and Copy frame are on the device and in the pane.
• With one element pinned, pointing at another draws the gaps between them.
• Escape, the switch, or leaving the Inspector ends it and gives the device its input back.

Inspect mode is off on a device with no tree and on a device shown in its own window.

LogsCopy Anchor Link

Filter by text, level or app. It follows the front app. contains filters take words, -word to exclude, or /regex/. Mute a noisy source and the count of what you hid stays on screen. Crash reports sit in the same group.

NetworkCopy Anchor Link

Network shows requests from apps that carry the Packet SDK, beside the device. It needs Packet on this Mac, because Tripod has no capture of its own. Without Packet running, or without an app on the device that uses the SDK, the pane stays empty and says why.

PerformanceCopy Anchor Link

Live shows CPU, memory and network tiles with 60-second sparklines for the host processes behind the selected simulator or emulator. It samples only while its tab is visible.

Tune holds the memory baseline, background services, emulator profiles, guest settings, snapshots, tuned copies, storage and clones. Its device picker lists simulators and emulators only. Picking one never boots or connects it, so you can tune a shut-down device before its next boot.

Build and runCopy Anchor Link

Pick an Xcode or Gradle project folder, build it and run it on this device. The app keeps several build folders, finds their projects, and lists recent builds with times. On a simulator it builds with Xcode. On Android it runs Gradle assembleDebug and installs the APK. Wired iPhone build and run is not supported.

StudioCopy Anchor Link

Record the screen or take a still, with a device frame, a background and a shape. An Access tab audits the screen for accessibility problems.

Mirror inputCopy Anchor Link

A click is a tap and a drag is a finger. A trackpad scroll drags a finger on iOS and lifts when your fingers leave, so iOS runs its own momentum. A mouse wheel moves a finger one row per line. Android takes scroll events. A watch turns its crown instead.

Option-drag holds a second finger mirrored through the screen's middle, and Shift-Option keeps both fingers moving together. A trackpad pinch spreads two fingers around the pointer. Two fingers work on simulators, emulators and Android phones, and not on a wired iPhone.

The Device menu follows Simulator and the Android emulator where they have a key:

Device windowsCopy Anchor Link

Device > Open in New Window (Shift-Command-N) moves a live device into a window of its own, with its input. It is the same stream and the same lease, never a copy. A device in a window stays warm, and at most four sessions are live across windows. When the device turns, the window takes the new shape and keeps the phone's long edge.

Compact and fullCopy Anchor Link

Compact is the default. The full window adds a device list and a labelled tool list. The same groups and tabs appear in both.