[Bug]: Can't Inspect WebView on iOS when setup with SPM

[abegehr]

Capacitor Version

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Latest Dependencies:

@capacitor/cli: 6.0.0
@capacitor/core: 6.0.0
@capacitor/android: 6.0.0
@capacitor/ios: 6.0.0

Installed Dependencies:

@capacitor/android: not installed
@capacitor/cli: 6.0.0
@capacitor/core: 6.0.0
@capacitor/ios: 6.0.0

[success] iOS looking great! 👌

Other API Details

npm: 10.5.1
node: 20.9.0
pod: 1.14.3

Platforms Affected

• iOS
• Android
• Web

Current Behavior

"No inspectable applications." on Safari for iOS projects setup with SPM (npx cap add ios --packagemanager SPM).

Expected Behavior

I'd expect to inspect the web view through Safari.

Project Reproduction

https://github.com/abegehr/capacitor-sample

Additional Information

When I delete the ios folder and re-init without SPM (npx cap add iOS), the web view is inspectable in safari as expected. Therefore I think it is a problem with the SPM setup.

[jcesarmobile]

Sadly on iOS the xcframeworks are always in Release mode, and for SPM we have to create .xcframeworks because Capacitor is mixed Objective-C and Swift source, which prevents from building a regular SPM.
Since xcframeworks are in Release mode, by default WebView inspection doesn't work because the default value is to check if it's in DEBUG mode, which is always false for xcframeworks.

So, if you want to inspect the WebView you'll have to set ios.webContentsDebuggingEnabled to true in your capacitor config file, that makes the WebView inspectable even in production builds, but you have to remember to remove it before you publish the actual production build.

[abegehr]

Thank you for explaining, @jcesarmobile! I opened a PR on the docs repo to add a note on this: ionic-team/capacitor-docs#299

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