Users should be able to define a manualScale instead of being locked into the mainScreen.scale

[regnerjr]

In order to stay flexible, users of this library "need" to upload two version of there reference images to keep tests passing on various environments (Other Developers, CI, etc)

This proposal would not lock users in to always using the "one true simulator" to run their tests on.

We've recently adopted Snapshot testing at my shop and I don't really want to be the the code review czar ensuring every new PR which adds a snapshot has one at @2x and @3x. Other cancers are the size of our git repo growing over time to support 2 screenshots for each new test.

Currently the framework uses [[UIScreen mainScreen] scale] for saving and comparing snapshots of views and layers.

If the view or layer are meant to be displayed at a different scale that doesn't match the main screen's one, the screenshots get resized (minified / magnified) and the comparisons are not correct any more from the point of view of the user, since the images are different from what will be shown to the user.

This PR tries to remove this limitation for those special cases by allowing the test developer to manually override the scale that will be used.

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This work was originally proposed by @djrtl as facebookarchive/ios-snapshot-test-case#166

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Thanks for doing the original implementation @djrtl, I hope I did not overstep by re-opening this here now that this lib is under new ownership.

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[djrtl]

@regnerjr of course no problem, go ahead 👍

[alanzeino]

I'll take a look at this soon.

[alanzeino]

Is this resolved here?

facebookarchive/ios-snapshot-test-case#166 (comment)

[m-ruhl]

@alanzeino
The described problem seams to be fixed.
Unfortunately with the scaling the images have most of the time little differences, and are failing therefore.

[regnerjr]

Thanks for the support on this Alan. 👍 Really glad you are supporting this project.

I'm thinking perhaps a better approach (instead of having a fixed size window and trying to do all of our snapshotting in there) will be to do snapshots for all devices we support.
(Current project is iPhone only, only Portrait orientation).
I've been thinking of adopting the technique of running the snapshot tests in their own, test target and making a build for each device and testing all 4 configs iPhoneX, iPhone 5.5", iPhone 4.7", and iPhone 4".

Glad we've got a fix for that issue sorted out (each just needs it's own build folder) #37

Cheers. Keep up the good work.

[Weizzz]

It seems the capability for using manualScale is no longer possible and it's back to using [[UIScreen mainScreen] scale].

[alanzeino]

It seems the capability for using manualScale is no longer possible and it's back to using [[UIScreen mainScreen] scale].

What did you see when debugging the manualScale?