How can I Quick Look custom objects with Xcode 5 visual debugger?

Question

Xcode 5 has a great new feature where you can hover over a variable name and get a visual representation of a UIColor, UIImage, or even UIBezierPath.

I vaguely reme

Answer 1

This is a new feature in Xcode 5.1, and the documentation on it can be found here. In a nutshell, you override -(id)debugQuickLookObject and return an OS type that already supports Quick Look, e.g. UIImage or NSAttributedString (full list of types in documentation):

- (id)debugQuickLookObject
{
    UIImage *image = [...];
    // Drawing code here
    return image;
}

For Swift:

There are a few options as of writing, none ideal:

• Conform to CustomPlaygroundQuickLookable, but that only works in Playgrounds (and requires Xcode 7/Swift 2).
• Use the same method as for Objective C. This requires your class to be marked @objc (or inherit a Objective-C class) as the caller relies on selectors.
• Conform to Reflectable, but that requires you to provide a full custom MirrorType with a bunch of other properties along with the QuickLookObject (and doesn't even seem to work as of Xcode 7?)