Featured iPhone Development Resources,iOS Development Libraries,Objective-C,Open Source iOS Libraries And ToolsLate last year I mentioned a pretty cool library that allows you record the user, the screen, and a user’s touches simultaneously to help with user interface testing.
Here’s another great library for recording from Wess Cope called Glimpse.
Glimpse is a very easy to use library that allows you to define recording start and end points within your code, and allows you to record the animations and actions that occur within a UIView. Glimpse automatically takes a series of screenshots at a desired time specified by you within the code and puts those screenshots together into a .Mov file.
Here’s a video created by running the example application:
Glimpse
And this code snippet from the readme shows how the recording was created with glimpse
– (void)viewDidAppear
{
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
// Create a new Glimpse object.
Glimpse *glimpse = [[Glimpse alloc] init];
// Start recording and tell Glimpse what to do when you are finished
[glimpse startRecordingView:self.view withCallback:^(NSURL *fileOuputURL) {
NSLog(@"DONE WITH OUTPUT: %@", fileOuputURL.absoluteString);
}];
// Create a subview for this example
UIView *view = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectInset(self.view.bounds, 40.0f 40.0f)];
view.backgroundColor = [UIColor greenColor];
view.alpha = 0.0f;
[self.view addSubview:view];
// We are going to record the view fading in.
[UIView animateWithDuration:5.0 animations:^{
view.alpha = 1.0f;
} completion:^(BOOL finished) {
// Since our animation is complete, lets tell Glimpse to stop recording.
[glimpse stop];
}];
}
@end
You can find Glimpse on Github here.
A nice easy way to record video showing what happens within a view.
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