Hi,
I think there is a bug in appium-instruments for bin/xcode-iwd.sh.
It adds and sets environment variables including the word string for both DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES and LIB_PATH. If you edit the plist after running the shell script, the simulator will run without delay.
The resulting com.apple.instruments.deviceservice.plist includes:
<key>DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES</key> <string>string ~/.nvm/versions/node/v6.3.1/lib/node_modules/appium-instruments/thirdparty/iwd7/DTMobileISShim.dylib</string> <key>LIB_PATH</key> <string>string ~/.nvm/versions/node/v6.3.1/lib/node_modules/appium-instruments/thirdparty/iwd7/</string>
when it should be:
<key>DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES</key> <string>~/.nvm/versions/node/v6.3.1/lib/node_modules/appium-instruments/thirdparty/iwd7/DTMobileISShim.dylib</string> <key>LIB_PATH</key> <string>~/.nvm/versions/node/v6.3.1/lib/node_modules/appium-instruments/thirdparty/iwd7/</string>
Here is a script to test it:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
nvm install node
nvm alias default node
nvm use node
node_version=$(node --version)
npm install -g appium
npm install -g wd
npm install -g appium-instruments
xcode_path=“/Applications/Xcode.app”
appium_instruments_path=“$HOME/.nvm/versions/node/$node_version/lib/node_modules/appium-instruments”
sh “${appium_instruments_path}/bin/xcode-iwd.sh” “$xcode_path” “${appium_instruments_path}”