Cycript @ 360|iDev 2013

Cycript is an Objective-C/JavaScript hybrid that provides a live console for injecting into existing applications, either on Mac OS X or iOS. However, while developers are often very interested in the tool, it mostly has only been applicable to development on jailbroken devices. In this talk, Jay Freeman (saurik) releases a new version of Cycript that is now fully supported on Mac OS X (all versions from 10.6 through 10.9) and which can easily target the iOS Simulator. Additionally, he explains how this new version of Cycript can be used from Xcode as part of debugging an application "on device".

(The audio isn't the greatest, but it is understandable. In the future I might actually record more of my demos, now that I know how easy it is, but with a microphone attached to my computer. It also might distract the audience a little, but I could imagine also having a little square for my head somewhere on the screen ;P.)

(Also, yes: this was all live and only minimally thought through beforehand, so a couple times my demos fail--in one case I think it actually did work but I was looking at the wrong window--and at one point I was describing one thing but accidentally using the _ variable to reference the wrong object in a way that gave nearly the correct result even though it was actually only accidentally the same value; I think you can get the idea, though ;P.)

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