David Smith1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.tz.is/@khaost/116253127280820238

OMG, @khaost is my hero. They posted about this Apple Watch repair dock which allowed for direct connection debugging in Xcode. Just got mine in the mail and it 100% works. For the first time in my 11 years of active watchOS development that I can reliably/quickly step through code running on device.

It is a bit pricing and does feel a little bit sketchy in terms not being officially supported but I don't care…it will save me huge amounts of time and gray hairs to not doing it wirelessly.

Show threadDavid Smith1d ago
Had my Apple Watch dock for less than 30 minutes and already found a bug in my app which has been lurking for years because attaching the debugger to the watch's widget extension never worked properly over WiFi.
Show threadAngelo 🎟️ Passable1d ago
@_Davidsmith how does it connect to the watch?
Show threadDavid Smith
@angomarcello The dock has a short range wireless receiver in it (I think) which is then turned into a USB signal. So you don't actually plug anything in, just lay it on the dock.
Mar 20 at 11:55amWeb
Show threadAngelo 🎟️ Passable1d ago
@_Davidsmith very interesting, thanks