In this post I am going to talk about debugging native iOS extensions for AIR. While fdb is sufficient for debugging the ActionScript part of an extension we have to rely on native tools to debug the native code. For iOS this means that the extension can be debugged only on Mac using the XCode toolset.
ADT generates a dSYM resource along with the final IPA when the IPA contains a native extension. The dSYM resource is created in the same directory as the IPA and follows the usual naming convention of having a “.dSYM” appended to the application bundle name. So if the application name is MyApp.app, the dSYM resource will be named MyApp.app.dSYM. This can be used for analyzing crash logs in the same way as for any native iOS application. Continue reading…