Debugging tools

You can use a number of different debugging tools on the Harmattan device and in the Qt SDK. Use these tools to ensure the high quality of your application before submitting it for publishing.

Debugging your application on the Harmattan device

To access the tools listed in this section, you must first activate developer mode on the Harmattan device.

The following debugging tools are recommended:

• GNU Project Debugger
• strace
• latrace
• Valgrind
• functracer
• sp-rtrace
• sp-rtrace-visualize
• xtrace
• x11-utils
• maemo-debug-scripts

For more tools, see Developer tools section.

Debugging your application in the Qt SDK

Qt Creator allows you to debug both native code and JavaScript/QML. To debug in Qt Creator, select Debug build for your project in Target Selector.

For instructions on debugging in Qt Creator, see Qt documentation.