Visual Studio hangs when remote debugging a Cordova iOS app

Question

I use Visual Studio 2013 with 'Tools for Apache Cordova'. In the settings page 'Remote Agent Configuration' of the Cordova tools, I enabled the iOS remote processing.

During remote debugging of an iOS Cordova app, Visual Studio hangs when I set a breakpoint to inspect a result of a cordova plugin. I then need to restart Visual Studio.

A breakpoint on a line which is executed before calling a Cordova plugin works without problems... Also storing the result of a Cordova plugin in a variable and then inspecting it using another click event handler works.

Does someone else also notice this problem? Could you fix it?

Answer 1

I had the same issue with self-written plugins.

Try to let your plugin run in a background thread. Then debugging should work without problems. Look at the following code snippet:

- (void)myMethod:(CDVInvokedUrlCommand*)command
{
       NSString* callbackId = command.callbackId;

       [self.commandDelegate runInBackground:^{
             // your plugin logic comes here

             // successful plugin execution
             CDVPluginResult* pluginResult = [CDVPluginResult resultWithStatus:CDVCommandStatus_OK messageAsString:@"success"];
             [self.commandDelegate sendPluginResult:pluginResult callbackId:callbackId];
       }

       return;
}