Debugger does not stop at the app initial breakpoint

[vchimev]

Tested with {N} CLI 1.6.0-524 and tns-android 1.6.0-2016.1.29.1.

tns debug android --emulator starts successfully the node inspector, but it does not stop at the initial breakpoint set in prepareExtend.js. The same command works correctly if --emulator is not specified.

[bfattori]

Is there a workaround for this problem? Sometimes this works, most times it runs the app and doesn't launch node-inspector for Android. I have tried:

tns debug android --debug-brk --emulator

That has only managed to stop once in the inspector. Every other time it launches my app, then sits forever doing nothing. My login dialog (which should show) isn't... But when the debug worked that one time it showed up when I let the process keep running from node-inspector.

[vchimev]

Can you try to leave the emulator running and execute: tns debug android? @bfattori

[bfattori]

It runs extremely slowly, but it seems to work. What happened was:

• I launched the emulator
• Ran tns debug android and it started the app, shut it down, then started it again. The first time, the login window showed. Second time it didn't. The inspector came up.
• Closed my app with the "home" button
• Re-ran my app from the application drawer. It came up, loaded the dialog, then stopped at the breakpoint I set when i clicked the "Login/Ok" button

I can use this workaround, but hoping you all can figure this out soon.

Thanks,

• Brett

[bfattori]

Here's an interesting note...

I created a Chromium Remote Debug config for IntelliJ Idea to run the command tns debug android --emulator --debug-brk --debug-port 5858 which runs and starts the Node Inspector, as expected. This works every time. It does not debug within Idea.

Just an FYI

[vchimev]

@rosen-vladimirov,

I gave a try to the 1.6.0 release candidates and here is what I got out of tns debug android --emulator:

• on Windows it works as expected,
• on OS X it works the first time executed (cleaned Chrome browsing data), but every next time the initial breakpoint is skipped and the app loads. Also it happened to open the node inspector twice.

tns debug android works as expected.

[enchev]

We changed the default behavior and debug will not longer stop on first code statement. I'm closing this.