BLConsole is a project mainly written in Objective-C, it's free.
A telnet-based shell-like console to be integrated into an iOS game or application.
BLConsole is a class to be instantiated by your iOS project, which starts up a small telnet server, as well as Bonjour services so that it is discoverable on the local network.
The basic concept is that rather than your game pulling up a console on the iDevice's screen, and having to deal with the on screen keyboard, or building a user interface for debugging or user customizations, you instead will connect from another device, presumably with a better keyboard and display for this kind of thing.
There is an example application that includes the class, and shows basic use for it.
It will start up a listner on port 24242, incrementing it in case that port is already occupied for whatever reason.
When you telnet to your device on this port, you will be greeted by a console prompt
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From there, if you type 'help' it will list the available commands.
License
This project is MIT Licesned.
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