danielpaulus/go-ios
This is an operating system independent implementation of iOS device features. You can run UI tests, launch or kill apps, install apps etc. with it.
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
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Where it stands
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3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 85 days ago, with 73 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 20% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements an OS-independent tool to automate iOS device features like app installation, launching, UI testing, and device state management using Go.
- Provides a stable, production-ready, cross-platform solution with JSON output and modular Go integration for seamless automation on Linux, Windows, and Mac.
- Use for running automated UI tests and WebDriverAgent on iOS devices across different operating systems without relying on Mac-only tools.
- Use for managing iOS device states such as network conditions, thermal profiles, and developer image mounting remotely via command line or REST API.
- Use for reverse engineering iOS device communication and building custom automation tools by leveraging the included debug proxy and JSON-based commands.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
npm install -g go-ioscan be used to get going. Runios --helpafter the installation for details. For iOS 17+ devices you need to runsudo ios tunnel startfor go ios to work. This will start a tunnel daemon. To make this work on Windows, download the latest wintun.dll from herehttps://git.zx2c4.com/wintunand copy it toC:/Windows/system32The goal of this project is to provide a stable and production ready opensource solution to automate iOS device on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. I am delighted to announce that a few companies including headspin.io and Sauce Labs will use or are using go-iOS.
Follow my twitter for updates or check out my medium blog: https://daniel-paulus.medium.com/
If you are interested in using go-iOS please get in touch on LinkedIn, Twitter or the Github discussions above, I always love to hear what people are doing with it.
If you miss something your Mac can do but go-iOS can't, just request a feature in the issues tab.
Go-iOS is getting an experimental REST-API check it out https://github.com/danielpaulus/go-ios/tree/main/restapi
Build Manual: Install golang and run
go build
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
343+16
Open issues
109+26
Compared with peers in iOS
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 17.0K | +13.3K | 33 | today |
| nightly-labs/openbot | 5.8K | +2.0K | 45 | today |
| rustdesk/rustdesk | 128.3K | +839 | 65 | 4 days ago |
| crmne/zapfast | 3.1K | +839 | 60 | 2 days ago |
| makecindy/cindy | 9.3K | +771 | 45 | today |
| danielpaulus/go-ios | 2.3K | — | 55 | 85 days ago |
| Category median | 9.3K | +839 | 45 | — |
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