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Steven F. Daniel
Steven F. Daniel
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Steven F. Daniel

Steven F. Daniel is the CEO and founder of GENIESOFT STUDIOS, a software development company based in Melbourne, Victoria, that focuses primarily on developing games and business applications for the iOS, Android, and Mac OS X platforms. He is an experienced software engineer with more than 17 years' experience and is extremely passionate about making people employable by helping them use their existing skills in iOS, Android, and Xamarin to get the job done. He is a member of the SQL Server Special Interest Group (SQLSIG), CocoaHeads, and the Java Community. He was the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at SoftMpire Pty Ltd., a company focused primarily on developing business applications for the iOS and Android platforms.
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Profiling your application using Xcode Instruments


In this section, we will focus on how to effectively use Xcode Instruments within our applications to track down areas that could be affecting the overall running performance.

These types of issues could potentially cause an application to run slowly, or even crash on the user's iOS device. We will look at how to profile our Animation Example application using the Leaks instrument that will help track down any memory leaks within our code, which may not have been released correctly and may thus affect the application's overall performance.

To begin profiling your application using the Instruments application, follow these simple steps:

  1. Select the AnimationExample.xcodeproj file from the Chapter 10 folder in the accompanying code bundle.

  2. Next, ensure that the AnimationExample Xcode project file is open within the Xcode development IDE.

  3. Choose Profile from the Product menu, or alternatively, use the keyboard shortcut, Command + I:

  4. Once this option...

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Steven F. Daniel

Steven F. Daniel is the CEO and founder of GENIESOFT STUDIOS, a software development company based in Melbourne, Victoria, that focuses primarily on developing games and business applications for the iOS, Android, and Mac OS X platforms. He is an experienced software engineer with more than 17 years' experience and is extremely passionate about making people employable by helping them use their existing skills in iOS, Android, and Xamarin to get the job done. He is a member of the SQL Server Special Interest Group (SQLSIG), CocoaHeads, and the Java Community. He was the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at SoftMpire Pty Ltd., a company focused primarily on developing business applications for the iOS and Android platforms.
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