What is FLEX?
FLEX (Flipboard Explorer) is a set of in-app debugging and exploration tools for iOS development. When presented, FLEX shows a toolbar that lives in a window above your application. From this toolbar, you can view and modify nearly every piece of state in your running application.
FLEX is a tool in the Mobile Runtime Inspector category of a tech stack.
FLEX is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to FLEX's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses FLEX?
Companies
5 companies reportedly use FLEX in their tech stacks, including Flipboard, Jisuanke, and Pixium Digital Pte Ltd.
Developers
10 developers on StackShare have stated that they use FLEX.
Pros of FLEX
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FLEX's Features
- Inspect and modify views in the hierarchy.
- See the properties and ivars on any object.
- Dynamically modify many properties and ivars.
- Dynamically call instance and class methods.
- Access any live object via a scan of the heap.
- View the file system within your app's sandbox.
- Explore all classes in your app and linked systems frameworks (public and private).
- Quickly access useful objects such as [UIApplication sharedApplication], the app delegate, the root view controller on the key window, and more.
- Dynamically view and modify NSUserDefaults values.
FLEX Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to FLEX?
Yoga
Yoga is a cross-platform layout engine which implements Flexbox. Yoga enables maximum collaboration within your team by implementing an API familiar to many designers and opening it up to developers across different platforms.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
