Faux Pas For Mac

While Apple does offer a set of tools that can inspect your Xcode projects and warn you about various issues, they have certain restrictions that are not present in third-party applications such as Faux Pas.

This nifty utility analyzes your Mac or iOS apps and notifies you about bugs and issues related to maintainability and style.

Faux Pas does not inspect code, the project’s build settings, static assets or other parameters individually, but examines all of them at once.

As a result, the application is better suited for detecting issues that span the boundaries between the multiple parts of your project that may not be visible when processing each of them separately.

Depending on the nature of your project, some warnings the app can provide may not be relevant. To avoid being flooded with useless notifications, you can configure each rule to best suit your needs.

Faux Pas also offers some ‘best practice’ suggestions that may not be agreed-upon by every developer, but can help you avoid making certain mistakes. Again, you can enable only the ones you find useful and ignore the others.

Faux Pas features a well-designed interface with a sensible layout and a fitting color scheme. Working with this tool is very simple, and it even offers a configuration wizard that can help you get started.

More advanced users can use the application directly from the command line.

Overall, Faux Pas is a handy OS X tool that can analyze your Xcode projects and warn you about errors or provide helpful suggestions. It is fully configurable and can be useful for experienced developers as well as newcomers.