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Flipper got archived, so I built an Android inspector that needs no SDK

DEV Community: android·Haul·9 days ago
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GitHub: https://github.com/ESeungJun/droidlens

Installers for macOS, Windows and Linux are on the Releases page.

If you've done Android work for a while, you've probably used Flipper. You add its SDK to your app, and you get the network log, the database and the view tree on your desktop. Meta archived it, and I kept missing it. (I wrote this with help from Claude and checked every number myself.)

So I built my own. It's called DroidLens, and it does a few things differently.

It works over adb alone, with no SDK, so it can open any app on the phone.

It has an MCP server, so a Claude Code agent can drive the device and check things for you.

What the agent checks gets saved as a YAML scenario you can replay as a regression test.

The first version took about a day, from the first commit to v0.5.1.…

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